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The way that the IME works is that you type in English characters (romaji) and it converts it for you as you go. I'm using a Mac system right now, but Kotoeri works the same way. It's not too difficult to pick up. Just note that when you hit spacebar, it'll convert what you typed to kanji (if applicable). Since there are multiple kanji with the same readings, hitting spacebar again will bring up a list from which you can select the kanji that you'd like. Similarly, the system is relatively good about knowing when to convert characters to katakana, but katakana is also selectable. You can even switch over to a katakana-only mode if you really desire to.
Note that IME also has an alpha-numberic entry mode, which is basically English only. So if you switch over to Japanese and you're still typing in regular English, make sure that the input is set to Hiragana (Windows XP shows this as a button with あ; Mac OS does as well)
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