I have a clean install of Newscoop 4.1.0 on a Linux VPS server.  I installed it with "The New Custodian" theme and starting data.

PHP version 5.3.17 and MySQL version 5.1.66

I can log in to admin through {mydomain}/admin but as soon as I login, I get a blank screen (no menu or anything) that reads:
An Error has occured - Application error

If I go to the main domain site I get the following:
Error: The site alias 'mydomain' was not assigned to a publication. Please create a publication and assign it the current site alias.  Which makes sense I guess since I was never able to log into admin and assign an alias to the site.

I have added the following to .htaccess:
php_flag display_errors 1
php_value error_reporting E_ALL


Error_Log reads:
[11-Feb-2013 19:30:27 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function getFirstName() on a non-object in /home/tactib/public_html/social/application/layouts/scripts/admin.phtml on line 107
[11-Feb-2013 19:32:53 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function getFirstName() on a non-object in /home/tactib/public_html/social/application/layouts/scripts/admin.phtml on line 107
[11-Feb-2013 19:33:11 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function getFirstName() on a non-object in /home/tactib/public_html/social/application/layouts/scripts/admin.phtml on line 107
[12-Feb-2013 15:05:17 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\MappingException' with message 'Class Newscoop\Entity\Comment is not a valid entity or mapped super class.' in /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/MappingException.php:142
Stack trace:
#0 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/Driver/AnnotationDriver.php(148): Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\MappingException::classIsNotAValidEntityOrMappedSuperClass('Newscoop\Entity...')
#1 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ClassMetadataFactory.php(281): Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Driver\AnnotationDriver->loadMetadataForClass('Newscoop\Entity...', Object(Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata))
#2 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ClassMetadataFactory.php(170): Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadataFactory->loadMetadata('Newscoop\Entity...')
#3 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/EntityManager.php(257): Doctrine\ORM in /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/bombayworks/zendframework1/library/Zend/Controller/Plugin/Broker.php on line 336
[12-Feb-2013 15:05:18 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\MappingException' with message 'Class Newscoop\Entity\Comment is not a valid entity or mapped super class.' in /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/MappingException.php:142
Stack trace:
#0 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/Driver/AnnotationDriver.php(148): Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\MappingException::classIsNotAValidEntityOrMappedSuperClass('Newscoop\Entity...')
#1 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ClassMetadataFactory.php(281): Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Driver\AnnotationDriver->loadMetadataForClass('Newscoop\Entity...', Object(Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata))
#2 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ClassMetadataFactory.php(170): Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadataFactory->loadMetadata('Newscoop\Entity...')
#3 /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/EntityManager.php(257): Doctrine\ORM in /home/tactib/public_html/social/vendor/bombayworks/zendframework1/library/Zend/Controller/Plugin/Broker.php on line 336

When I log into admin, the messages log "on the server" reads:

Feb 12 09:13:28 host Newscoop[1993]: Application error (Params: {"module":"admin","controller":"index","action":"index","error_handler":{"exception":{},"type":"EXCEPTION_OTHER","request":{}},"_next":"get","f_is_encrypted":"1","f_user_name":"admin","f_password":"9CB8YO5WKVkOvb","f_login_language":"en","Login":"Login","f_xorkey":"08041fb0d6821a29fb9caeb45ab513da55b782b43aa6594f5430c7ae8611d852"})


Excerpt from phpinfo():
Configure Command     './configure' '--disable-fileinfo' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-pdo=shared' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-zip' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-curl=/opt/curlssl/' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-gd' '--with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-kerberos' '--with-ldap' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/' '--with-mcrypt=/opt/libmcrypt/' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-openssl-dir=/usr' '--with-pcre-regex=/opt/pcre' '--with-pdo-mysql=shared' '--with-pdo-sqlite=shared' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--with-xsl=/opt/xslt/' '--with-zlib' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-litespeed'
Server API     LiteSpeed V6.0
Virtual Directory Support     disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path     /usr/local/lib
Loaded Configuration File     /usr/local/lib/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files     (none)
Additional .ini files parsed     (none)
PHP API     20090626
PHP Extension     20090626
Zend Extension     220090626
Zend Extension Build     API220090626,NTS
PHP Extension Build     API20090626,NTS
Debug Build     no
Thread Safety     disabled
Zend Memory Manager     enabled
Zend Multibyte Support     disabled
IPv6 Support     enabled
Registered PHP Streams     https, ftps, compress.zlib, php, file, glob, data, http, ftp, phar, zip
Registered Stream Socket Transports     tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls
Registered Stream Filters     zlib.*, convert.iconv.*, mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk


Any help in troubleshooting would be appreciated.