Three questions from an ECB beginner

Hi,

I'm new to ECB (and Emacs in general).  I've installed ECB and love
it, but have three problems I haven't been able to fix:

1. When ECB starts, I get a buffer asking me to save all changed
options into ~/.emacs.  I'm running Emacs from a USB keychain and have
all my options saved into default.el, which I think is causing this to
happen each time ECB starts.

2. Then, it displays a buffer titled "First steps after activating ECB
first time."  I'd like to turn this off, but can't find a setting for
it.

3. When ECB starts the directory tree is empty.  Once I open a file,
the directory tree is populated.  Ideally I'd like to start with the
directory tree open to the directory from which Emacs is being run.

Could anyone please give me a few pointers towards solving these
problems?  Even a link to the relevant documentation would help; I've
managed to find ECB configuration options for everything else I want
to do, just not these three things.

Yours,
Duncan Bayne

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