Redmine

Hello, I have just installed redmine on my development server. I like so far but I have run in to a couple of snags

1. when I try to add a issue I get a Internal server error
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   Rendering /home/mongrel/redmine/public/500.html (500 Internal Server Error)

Processing IssuesController#create (for 10.2.2.245 at 2010-10-04 07:30:04) [POST]
Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "project_id"=>"mwdserp", "action"=>"create", "authenticity_token"=>"o7y/uHQPnt6Q6j7rF4s4j73XhPgS5UWNnETR8p8UQII=", "issue"=>{"start_date"=>"2010-10-04", "estimated_hours"=>"", "priority_id"=>"1", "done_ratio"=>"0", "assigned_to_id"=>"", "subject"=>"testing", "category_id"=>"", "tracker_id"=>"1", "due_date"=>"", "status_id"=>"2", "description"=>""}, "controller"=>"issues", "attachments"=>{"1"=>{"description"=>""}}}

NoMethodError (undefined method `to_sym' for false:FalseClass):
app/models/user.rb:397:in `notify_about?'
app/models/issue.rb:420:in `recipients'
app/models/mailer.rb:46:in `issue_add'
app/models/issue_observer.rb:20:in `after_create'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/observer.rb:185:in `notify_observers'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/observer.rb:184:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/observer.rb:184:in `notify_observers'
app/controllers/issues_controller.rb:131:in `create'

1. when i try to create a user I get

Rendering /home/mongrel/redmine/public/500.html (500 Internal Server Error)

Processing UsersController#create (for 10.2.2.245 at 2010-10-04 07:19:55) [POST]
Parameters: {"send_information"=>"1", "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]", "action"=>"create", "authenticity_token"=>"o7y/uHQPnt6Q6j7rF4s4j73XhPgS5UWNnETR8p8UQII=", "no_self_notified"=>"1", "pref"=>{"hide_mail"=>"0", "comments_sorting"=>"asc", "time_zone"=>"Eastern Time (US & Canada)"}, "controller"=>"users", "user"=>{"admin"=>"0", "language"=>"en", "mail"=>"jeff@mwds.ca", "lastname"=>"Moncrieff", "firstname"=>"Jeffrey", "login"=>"jeff"}, "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "notification_option"=>"all", "continue"=>"Create and continue"}
Rendering template within layouts/admin
Rendering users/new

ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `to_sym' for false:FalseClass) on line #2 of app/views/users/_mail_notifications.html.erb:
1: <p>
2: <%= select_tag 'notification_option', options_for_select(@notification_options.collect {|o| [l(o.last), o.first]}, @notification_option.to_sym),
3: :onchange => 'if ($("notification_option").value "selected") {Element.show("notified-projects")} else {Element.hide("notified-projects")}' >
4: &lt;/p&gt;
5: < content_tag 'div', :id => 'notified-projects', :style => (@notification_option 'selected' ? '' : 'display:none;') do %>

app/views/users/_mail_notifications.html.erb:2
    app/views/users/_form.rhtml:38:in `_run_rhtml_app47views47users47_form46rhtml_locals_f_form_object'
    app/views/users/new.html.erb:4
    app/helpers/application_helper.rb:721:in `labelled_tabular_form_for'
    app/views/users/new.html.erb:3
    app/controllers/users_controller.rb:110:in `create'

the about script
/home/mongrel/redmine/script# ./about
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:119:Warning: Gem::Dependency#version_requirements is deprecated and will be removed on or after August 2010. Use #requirement
About your application's environment
Ruby version 1.8.7 (i486-linux)
RubyGems version 1.3.7
Rack version 1.0
Rails version 2.3.5
Active Record version 2.3.5
Active Resource version 2.3.5
Action Mailer version 2.3.5
Active Support version 2.3.5
Application root /home/mongrel/redmine
Environment development
Database adapter mysql
Database schema version 20100819172912