Hi guys.  I bought the T7 back when they had the 9.99 sale, and I am just now getting around to messing around with it.

Forgive me if these questions have been covered.  I have searched and read most of this forum and read the manuals, but I'm having some problems figuring out a couple of things

I have used Jon M.'s awesome tutorial and have everything programmed and running properly, I think.  

What exactly do I do to initiate the takeoff roll?   I simply engaged the autothrottle button (they were armed already) on my first flight, but it seemed a little weak.  Do I need to do something with the TOGA buttons on the throttles first?  

Also, although I have VNAV configured for the entire flight,  I am flying with default ATC  in FSX, so I break off the flightplan about 60-70 miles out as instructed, and I take over vertical navigation and speed myself and use heading mode to follow ATC vectors for the ILS    I can't figure out how to set up for an ILS landing.  How do I set the NAV radio for the proper frequency?   I thought I had done so in the CDU, and I set the knob on the MCP to approach from map mode, but the ILS never came alive after I was turned  to intercept.  The GS indicator did show up.