Creating Users via Command Line/Terminal

Hey Everyone!
A Happy New Year to all! I hope that it was a good way to end your 2005 and I hope your 2006 looks to be promising!
Now back to the tough stuff.
Does anyone have a detailed example of how to create a user (user name, short name, password) assign them to a group(s), and set an expiration date for that account?
I'm guessing that there is a single string that could be entered into Terminal that would do all of this. I've read the man page for dscl but I honestly dont know how to interpret it as I'm not TOO fluent with Terminal yet. Yes I understand it can be dangerous to work inside Terminal which is why I'm asking for an assistance in translating the man page to english

dscl -u $ADMIN -P $PASSWORD /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -create /Users/$shortname
dscl -u $ADMIN -P $PASSWORD /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -create /Users/$shortname UniqueID $4
dscl -u $ADMIN -P $PASSWORD /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -create /Users/$shortname RealName $shortnam
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