>>Sorry to hear that, but installing Subversion shouldn't be complicated. You download the Zip file and run the installer.
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>>Once you have that then you can use the article to do the rest.
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>>Put Subversion into your Windows path or otherwise preface the path to the subversion binary commands for the executables to run (ie. sc.exe etc.)...
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>>+++ Rick ---
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>Here is the thing. Originally I created the directory c:\Subversion_Repository. I did go through the steps, but it gave me an error about the versions.
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>So, I upgraded the subversion (copied the latest files) and got the same error about versions.
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>Ok, I re-created the directory with a different name c:\Subversion, but now the Service path still referrs to Subversion_Repository and I don't see a way to change it.

It's in the registry - HKEY_LM\System\ControlSet001\Services\svn. I would make sure that the file size/date of svnserve.exe in your C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\ directory matches the version in the ZIP file you downloaded.

>The only one more thing I can try before admitting my defeat again is to delete c:\Subversion, create again c:\Subversion_Repository praying it would work.
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>UPDATE. Nope, now back to the original error
>Error * URL 'svn://IP address/Subversion_Repository' non-existent in that revision

Try pointing Tortoise at svn://IPAddress/ only.