I would go for Blendercookie as well. All the tuts there are well demonstrated and easy to follow. One of its plus's is that when things don't work out as expected, an explanation of why its happened and how to recover usually follows. This isn't everybody's cup of tea during a tutorial but knowing what to do when things go wrong is also part of the learning curve.

Look through all of the tuts there, even if you're not particularly interested in that area as you will pick up things that will make life easier in all areas.

Knowing the shortcut keys just makes things go that little bit faster as in any other program and getting to know the most common will make things easier. Pretty much all the commands you will need can be selected via the menu bars as well if you want the point and click approach. The lesser known shortcuts will come as and when you need them. The section at the bottom of the link that LaurieA gave above lists the most common ones.

Another one to look at is Blenderguru.com. Andrew waffles a bit but does show a lot of good info, particularly about using nodes.