First things fist... make sure you have the pre-requisites.  Start by removing any previous or beta versions of ASP.NET MVC.  I start with the ASP.NET MVC Downloads page.

Intall the ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0 - the one you really need is AspNetMVC1.msi

A couple times an issue has come up where the MVC Project Template is not available when you go to New Project.

Double check that you have the project templates at this location...

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Web\1033

The MVC Project template is called MvcWebApplicationProjectTemplate.zip

If it is there and you are not getting it as an option try opening the Visual Studio Command Prompt and running the following commands to install the templates:

devenv.exe /installvstemplates
devenv.exe /setup

If you just want the starter project, you can download the following.

MvcStarter.zip (273.24 kb)