From within Company #0, create a new company #1 and in your case choose the preferred Australian CoA.
Now logout of the default company #0.
Then, login to the Company #1 which will be your "working" company and enjoy FA.

I installed FA by extracting to /var/www/html/fa and running the installation script, but skipped specifying the CoA as I wanted to install a customised Australian CoA. However, it looks as though an USA 0000 CoA was installed anyway.

Setup > Install/Activate Chart of Accounts opens a page entirely blank except for the heading Install/Activate Chart of Accounts, and the tabs Chart, Installed, Available, and Encoding. Did I do something wrong, or is this page to be included in the next release?

If I use the method of restoring from a CoA *.sql file in fa/sql/company*/backup/, how do I avoid overwriting options already specified for the company that has been set up? Can I delete all the table descriptions from the *.sql CoA file except for those with 'chart' in their names?

Regards,
Hedley