If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the "Start" tutorial or First Tutorial listed in the Documentation.chm is a little out dated.

The VS compiler throws errors if I try to use commands like "App.icon" or "IOPath", are there any alternatives to these?

Also, the only way I can seem to find files hidden in sub directories of the project is to give the entire file path to that file, starting from the initial drive;

Paks.ad("..Data/engine.pak") cannot be found but "C:/User/Tutorial/Data/engine.pak" does.

Obviously I can include the engine.pak file with the exe and use "engine.pak", but is there a better way to retain the structure of the directory?

It sounds like maybe you need to run AutoUpdate to get the latest updates and latest engine.pak.