A complete Biblatex example - from start to end

@jon, thanks for the tips (and everybody else). I was able to piece it all together with all your guy's help. For anybody else reading this this is what you need to do to get the latest version of LaTeX working w/ biblatex (something you need if you're wanting to use references)

Steps to take to install LaTeX and Biblatex so that you can use references in your documents. (this is using Ubuntu, Linux)

1. Download and extract the needed file wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
2. Extract that compressed file tar -zxvf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
3. Go into the directory and run the script file as SUDO sudo ./install-tl
4. After downloading many different files (the install process took me about 20 minutes, so go make yourself a cup of tea) you should have this setup. You will then need to update your PATH variable to include the location of where LaTeX is installed to. Add the following to your ~/.profile export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH NOTE: your last directory might be different. Mine was "x86_64-linux" but you should first check to see if that exists. (Also don't forget to close your shell and reopen it so that the changes to the PATH settings are added)

You are now completed with the set up process. Time to actually write out a damn Tex document now.

Please download this fully working example file http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=fLWQ93Ly. Save that file to your local disk as the following filename "test1.tex" and run the following in your shell:

1. pdflatex test1.tex (This will generate a few warnings, but you can ignore them)
2. biber test1
3. pdflatex test1.tex (This will then generate a PDF file for you which should look like this: )

Please let me know if anybody has any troubles with this.