[CWB] CQPweb and CQPweb-in-a-box

[Graham Ranger -- UAPV]

Hello,
I'm trying to set up a corpus of French behind a CQPweb interface, and, 
for the time being, I'm simulating this using CQPweb-in-a-box, to check 
that I'm preparing the corpus correctly with cwb, etc.
I can get the corpus installed (thanks to Klaus Rothenhäusler), but the 
word count remains stubbornly stuck at "1", whatever I do. If I go via 
the command line, with cqp and "info;", however, I get the right number 
of words.
Consequences of this are: I can search for strings, but any attempt to 
search for collocations hangs (understandably); the frequency counts are 
absurd (75 occurrences of "x" yields a frequency of "75 million x per 
million words").
I have the impression that there must be something very basic that I'm 
missing. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
Best,
Graham.