HELP. I am a newbie at this. Can anyone give me some guidance as to how to configure analog to analyze my web logs. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I would start with the manual. If you have any specific questions, let me know.

Good luck.

See: http://www.analog.cx/docs/Readme.html

How do you retrieve the logs for viewing?
My hosts documentation say to log into telnet, but how do I get the reports from telnet? What am I missing here?

The results are probably going to be in HTML. I imagine that there is a web page that you will have to view.

Ask your host.