Bob, you need to give more details.
At what point were you stymied?
Are you trying to start a brand new group or transfer an existing group from Yahoo or GoogleGroups?
What error message do you receive?
Is it because the name isn't unique?
Perhaps you actually successfully created a group, and received an email which landed in your junk mail, and then you can't use that name again?
Details will help people help you!
Cheers,
Frances
Frances