I am a Garage Band idiot. Ringtone help wanted !

I only bought iLife '08 b/c my friend told me I can make my own free ringtones from GB. (I am glad i got the iLife because iPhoto is 100% better than it was)..
Anywho, I have no idea how to even begin. I start up Garage Band, and I get those 4 choices, I click New Project, and then what?
All I want to do is drag a song from iTunes into Garage Band, Select a particular verse, and send it back to my iTunes ringtones folder.
Does anyone have the time to explain this to me or a helpful link that shows step by step.
I can tell that there awesome things you can do with G.B., but **** if I know how to do it!
Thanks alot!!

Okay. This is real easy. What you want to do is, find the actual song file you want to make into a ring tone. You can't just drag and drop thing directly from iTunes into GarageBand. Your iTunes files are found in User/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music.
Once you find the song file you want, just drag it into a new track in GarageBand. Once the file is loaded into GarageBand, you have to select a section of the song not to exceed 40 seconds. After you've made your selection, trim off the unneeded sections of the song. You then need to loop the song. Do this by clicking on the loop tool at the bottom of the GarageBand window. It looks like two curvy arrows. Drag the yellow loop bar thingy that appears at the top of the song so that it extends the full length of your song.
All that's left to do now is select "share" form the Apple menu bar and select "Send Ringtone to iTunes." All done.
Here's a step by step that may cover anything I've missed:
http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/create-custom-iphone-ringtones-the-free-an d-apple-way-334073.php
Enjoy!

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