Quote - "If people are anything like me, they just don't understand the different settings."

That's what the manual is there for, together with experimentation and forums like this one. :-)
Do you mean I'm one of the few that actually read the Vue manual? :-)

Quote - "For instance, what do you mean by the AA settings 4/28/80"

This directly relates to the dialog box where you define Anti-Aliasing settings in detail. In the render settings dialog box, click on Edit in the section "anti-aliasing" and you'll be taken to a dialog box with several options. The numbers 4/28/80 relate to the only numbers which are in this box, in what regards object anti-aliasing, respectively minimum sub-rays per pixel, maximum sub-rays per pixel and quality threshold. If you don't know what these things mean, than you're not taking full advantage of what Vue has to offer and therefore your images don't have the quality that they could have and your render times are not optimized, making you waste time waiting for the renders to finish.