Installation Issues

I just installed macports 1.6 on my macbook pro running osx 10.5/leopard xcode 3.0 xquartz 2.1.3 It took forever, which i confirmed to be due to long time rsync'ing the tree. It finally said installation successful, but when I went to sudo port it couldn't find port. So I checked and there was no .profile created by the installation script. I added the path manually, but I am concerned that other things may have been missed by the script?? Specifically, is there anything else in the .profile that should have been created. I just installed 'unrar' fine ... Thanks