Localhost not working using Joomla and WAMP

I installed WAMP and Joomla. It went fairly smoothly until I tried to launch Jooomla. If you could take a look at my settings below, I'd really appreciate it. Maybe you'll see what is wrong and have a suggestion for me. I've looked all over the internet for help and found nothing that helped.

Versions
Windows Vista, SP2 (32-bit)
Joomla 1.5.10
WAMPServer 2.01i
Apache version: 2.2.11
php version: 5.2.9-1
Firefox 3.5.7

Directories
c:\wamp\www contains joomla folder and index.php
c:\wamp\www\joomla contains 3,935 files and 730 folders (18.8 MB)
php admin: http://www.localhost.com/phpmyadmin/

Deleted
c:\wamp\www\joomla\installation

The Problem
In Firefox, when I go to localhost/joomla (http://www.localhost.com/joomla), I get "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading".

Note
A user forum I stumbled upon said to check the Services. wampmysql was already running. apache was not running and I could not start the service. wampserver was able to start it though so now both services are running. But I still can't launch Joomla in wampserver.

If I've left out any important settings, please let me know. I thank you in advance for your time. I really need to get started on my website!

-- DJ