search the archives on cookie and you will find tuts for 2.49 as well

also there is blender guru and even blender games

most of the tuts for the 2.5 series work in 2.49 if you open the hotkeys menu in a subwindow

also in the last 3 years i have never had a blender that wasnt a beta or lower, there is always too much development to ever call it done

the blender wikki  noob to pro    is ok for most references but lacks correct methods for complex meshes