>>Yawn<< Well, clearly this thing is going to require a paradigm shift. It IS frustrating to own a new toy and not be able to use it for much of a much. I resisted the urge to install AOL onto it. It does not come with any software that I can use without a digital camera for inputting imagery. I mean by that that it does of course have iMovie and iPhoto ( or whatever the photo manipulation software is called ), but I lack a DV cam. I do have some images stored on this P.C., and this afternoon will attempt to figure out how to import them into the TiBook.
It has no word processor…etc. These things will come to me of course, but for now it’s silly to try to go through a tutorial in the book I bought for it. On the vote of the employees at the Apple Store last night, I bought Click This, Muthah ! : The Inside Story of The Stolen Graphical Interface Scandal as a learning tool. 
Okay, sorry, I couldn’t resist. I got Mac OS X : The Missing Manual, by David Pogue who is apparently to Macintosh what Cecil Adams is to the factual realm we all yearn to exist in. Da Man. It seems pretty straightforward. The forward does make a few lifestyle suggestions but I’m trying not to bristle at them all.
What if I don’t want to wear Birkenstocks with black socks, keep a yoghurt maker in the fridge, buy granola at the food co-op weekly or grow my favorite “herbs” in a hydroponic system powered by the Solar Panels on the roof of my “A- Frame” ??? Some of this may be more of a struggle than others. 
istara, from what I was shown last night, it is an amazing deal. This machine lists at 2,899.00. Because it was a store demo sitting on the Genius Bar, it was marked down 1,100.00. I got it- LITERALLY- with 50 minutes left on the sale and upgrade package. I got lucky, and frankly after the 18 months I’ve had, I can use a run of really good luck, so please don’t hate me too much for scoring a nice deal on this. 
This machine will leave my hands in a few days, and will go to Texas to be converted into a DVD/CD-ROMW machine, ( That was the part of the deal that expired in 50 minutes, the upgrade was inexpensive and to my mind, essential. I OWN a DVD player, I need to be able to burn at least some QuickTime movies and normal files to a CD-ROM. I also must be able to protect the Edit List Files for jobs I am working on, and to do so means burning them to CD. It was a must. ) My queries will drop to nil at some point as a result of sending it off for upgrades. I know that there are Mac User BB’s galore, but if I come across some things early on that make no sense, I’d like to bring the queries to the people whose brains I trust the most- The Teeming Millions. So, I’m gonna keep feeding this thread with what may seem to be stupid questions for a while. Bear with me.
I’m psyched.