Basic tutorial/glossary

I've recently been moving from an old beige G3/OS9 to an iBook G4/OS10.4, and discovered that all the people who told me that OSX was "just like" OS9 were lying through their teeth! I swear, I think I'm trying to grok a recent version of Windoze!
OK, there's a few things I've figured out, and there are some things I like about OSX, but I'm freakin' lost trying to do simple things to get up to speed, to understand the new terminology, or how the system is organized! (And I've worked with computers for >30 years!)
I've tried to find answers in the Apple Forums, in the iBook manual and help files to no avail (for example I can't believe that they refer to such things as "Smart Folders", and don't explain what the **** they are or what they do!). I spend forever trying to FIND where things are organized on the hard drive (simple in OS 6 through 9). I can't access the info I'm used to in the AppleMenu and Finder drop-downs, I can't understand all the icons in the new Finder window, and I've probably set up some things based on how I used to organize my Macs that have caused me problems in the new OS.
Where can I find a SIMPLE tutorial and glossary??? (The only things I find seem to assume one is upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4, and OSX is **** near a new species compared with Classic.)
Thanks!

The dock is kind of handy in that any significant programs show up in the dock when they are running, even "Classic" programs. If you have Classic running it will show up there too.
If you want to see everything you have running, open up the application utility called Activity monitor (but you'll probably close it again immediately after seeing everything on there).
Note that if you are running OS9 programs that involve close interaction with system level activities that some of these no longer work under Classic since in Classic the system is really under the control of OSX. Standard problem things may be programs, special cards, or printers, programs that rely upon close interaction with Quicktime but can't handle working with the new version. Fortunately there aren't too many of the Quicktime issues. I sometimes use Movie Player 2.5.1 which is basically Quicktime Pro vintage OS8.1 and it still seems to work okay.
If you plan on doing a lot of things in Classic you might want to keep Activity monitor in mind because I find Classic on occasion gets stuck and this is evidenced in seeing BlueEnvironment taking up a huge chunk of CPU activity. I run a utility called Xstat menu on my computer which displays CPU, network activity, temperature (bunch of stuff) at the top.
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"TCarp" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> When converting the png file to a gif I have played with
the options
> including
> index and alpha transparency and noticed the matte
feature.
>
> This is the area of tutoring I could use (i.e. getting a
crisper
> transition
> between the image and the background). I'm also curious
how the
> anti-aliasing
> settings in FW relate.
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