I have Vidalia installed, set up Chrome to use port 8118 for the proxy and I\'ve checked my connection through https://check.torproject.org/ but I\'m having difficulties getting
Turns out this entire mess was just syntax problems. A proper command is here:
curl -v --socks4a localhost:9050 http://check.torproject.org/
With TWO dashes before socks4a and ONE colon before the port.