Holy wow!  Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for me!  Seriously, I'm humbled by all the work you put into this, and really really owe it to you to learn to model this object!  I just got home from work tonight, and won't have time to try out the tutorial you made yet, but I PROMISE tomorrow I will definitely watch the video, and model along as best I can.

Will you be around tomorrow? Saturday?  I'll post any questions I have to the thread here, but I'm definitely excited to try and complete the model.  It definitely looks a lot easier than using arrays and bending and stuff.  I'm sure those things have their place, and some people like to model that way, but it just didn't make sense to me.  Just watching this video real quck tonight, it looks like I may be able to do this.  Ok, I'll post my questions and progress tomorrow!

Thank you once again, luxxeon!  That's incredibly nice of you.