Creating a transparent GIF in Photoshop CS4

I am new to Photoshop CS4 and I'm finding it a bit of a 'challenge'.
I would like to create a transparent GIF of my signature, so that I can put it into various documents.
My signature is on a white background and is written using a blue ball point pen and is scanned in as a colored GIF file.
Despite having Googled how to do that I am completely stumped.  They talk about using the lasso tool to draw around my signature (which I do) and then they say press the delete key.  Well, on my iMac NOTHING happens!
Can anyone offer me a simple tutorial (for the Mac) that can walk me through creating a transparent GIF file of my signature?
Thanks,
Peter

Load luminance or the channel with the best contrast by command-clicking the appropriate channel in the Channels Panel
It seems hard to make it more clear …
Command-click (hold the command-key pressed while clicking) the composite Channel’s icon (or any of the other channels’ if you should deem them preferable) in the Channels Panel.
This should load a Selection.
I would like to create a transparent GIF of my signature, so that I can put it into various documents.
Where do you want to do that anyway (Photoshop, some layout-software, a browser …)?
Because depending on that using a file-format of fairly limited features like gif could seem inadvisable.
the problem I have with Photoshop CS4 is that when I enter the help system it goes to the web and give me help for Photoshop CS5!!!!
You should be able to download the Help as a pdf here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408379.html
If psd doen’t mean anything to you you should look it up.

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