Using VS 2008 with SP1 and MVC RC 1 (verified most recent 2nd publish) and following the ReadMe instructions I:

1. Download the October template.
2. Create new ASP.NET MVC Web Application (without a unit test).
   
3. Run the project and enable debugging, everything is fine.
4. Add existing items to 'Content' directory (overwrites Site.css and adds images).
5. Create 'Helpers' directory and add the two existing files.
6. Overwrite 'Index.aspx' in 'Views\Home' directory.
7. Overwrite 'Site.Master' in 'Views\Shared' directory.
8. Global replace on entire solution of '[YourProjectName]' with 'TestMvc'.  5 occurrences replaced.

And it doesn't work.

Tried my best guessing to fix things manually.  I notice there isn't a Site.Master.cs file (and right-clicking View Code won't add one), so I added a new masterpage which creates the codebehind files and then replaced it with the existing stuff and blah blah blah still can't get it to work.