Well your right in the middle of it. No need to go any place else. Take the advice with a grain of salt and don't let it be the "bible". Go with the flow. When you bring up a subject, you'll get many different opinions. During this you will see that many say the same or similar response, so go with that.

All your questins can be answered, just make sure you go to the right forum. Most of the basics has already been covered a thousand times, so go to the appropriate forum and do a search and see what comes up.