Welcome to the forum.
I would not give up to quickly. You have quite an investment for you think about. I felt just like you when I first started, as did most of the members here, who are prepared to help you.
If you look at the "Salt Water Chlorinator and Feeder" forum, there is a post with details as to how to operate a SWCG. It is the second or third page.
Let's do something fast. Start adding bleach to the pool so that the Chlorine is about 15 ppm. If you know the pool dimensions in gallons, you add 1 gallon of bleach to every 10,000 gallons to raise the Chlorine 1 ppm.
The following bleach calculator from one of our members wiil help you determine the bleach demand more accurately, and has other useful calculations.
http://www.hal-pc.org/~mwsmith2/BleachCalc262.exe
As soon as you can, get us a water analysis of your pool so we can give you further advice, whether from your test kit or pool store.
Information on your pool type, inground or aboveground, plaster or vinyl, filter type, sand, cartridge or DE would also be helpful.
Please remember we are here to help you, and many here have more experience than I.
Hang in there, and keep us posted.
Pat
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