Don't worry about the confusion soon it will all be clear. If you are a visual learner then trust me you will learn either the easy way or the hard deep pockets way, but either way you will learn :P
I still say for the record "The way to go is with the stryker C"
But hey it's your money you will figure it out eventually and you may have loads of fun doing it too and almost any experience in my book is good, um almost! ;-)
as for video? hmm sorry can't really help with that one I have no idea where you might be able to get that kind of help but
on horizonhobby.com at the bottom of the page are several links for begining in the hobby you can check them out at
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Search/A...ow-Tos&CatId=A
and
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Articles...ArticleId=1647
and on towerhobbies.com there's
http://www.easyrc.com/
I'm off to bed
Good luck
xero