btw, when learning blender, the most usefull thing i could do to help me learn was to just play with buttons not knowing what they did.  if you dont want to mess up a scene, make a new scene specificaly for playing with that button.  in my whole blender experience i think i've only ever used maybe 6 or 7 tutorials.  a topology tutorial for making a hand, a tutorial for armatures, a tutorial for uv (although i beleive that whatever can be done with textures, excluding writing, can be done with procedurals), a tutorial for caustics and yafray, the wiki article on liquids, a tutorial on particles which can be found on blendernation, and the basic interface tutorial.  from there all the other knowlege came from playing around (and the sss stuff from the papers by henrik jensen).   oh, and i dont realy like video tutorials, while they do go through everything its anoyint to have to pause and replay and go back and stuff.