Is there a guide to iMovie 11 for someone who understands video editing in the normal way?

Yesterday, for the very first time, I used iMovie 11.  My son shot a little video on his iPod Touch, and then wanted to play around with the titles and transitions a bit more than the iPod would afford.  So, we did the import via iTunes dance, and opened it on the Mac in iMovie 11.  Here's where the fun ended.
I've done small projects in FCE or FCP before, and iMovie before them.  Since we were using the Mac our kids use, it didn't have FCP on it. It was a great little tool for simple projects.  The last time I used iMovie was iMovie 6.  iMovie 11 feels like a hamfisted disaster by comparison.
The project imported just fine.  But then I was left with a string of clips that I can't put transitions into, add titles to, or anything useful.  No indication of how long the movie would be is visible.  I clicked a number of menus, looked around, and couldn't find anything.  I Googled.  I found an Apple KB article that suggested I can control automatic transitions with the project theme settings.  Oh wait, that menu option is greyed out.
Click some more buttons that have no discernable purpose, and whammo, the project list is replaced by something that looks like a timeline without any notion of time.  Now I can add titles and transitions.  So, I output the movie and finally, we're done.  I sent my son out of the room while I cursed at the seemingly brain dead software.  My wife had a bit of a laugh at that.
So, is there some sort of tutorial for iMovie 11 that's aimed at people who aren't the "ooh, shiny!  video!" type?

iMovie 11 tutorials:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
and also these:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html#interface

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