Learning Photoshop CS4

I've just emptied my bank account and bought CS4 (omg!) and I'm a completely new user to Photoshop (apart from using the trial versions) so I wondered if anyone had any advice on a book to buy to help me learn Photoshop?
I know there's tons of tutorials on the web but I really prefer a hard copy on my desk to refer to.
What books have you read on PS that you would recommend?
Thanks
TM

emptied mine on the same, PLUS, printer, labtop, 2K of other software, 200$ worth (well, we'll see what they are 'worth) of books, Intuos 4 tablet, Corell Paint, Nik Software Collection, Lightroom 2, Photoshop Elements 7 and Adobe Premiere Elements 7.
AFTER ALL THIS.....  I STILL CANT GET CAMERA RAW TO WORK. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME? (please?)
HOWEVER...
I know NOTHING - BUT - after extensive research on my : this is what I purchased ...  (my own opinion is simply that, plus other AMAZON users will show)  go to PEACHPIT and OREILLY and AMAZON for your books and see who has a better deal, sometimes, one will be like getting 2 books free by saving $$ OR if you need something special - go to Oreilly or PeachPit . they are a bit more expensive, but offer buy 2 get 3rd free type books. And have pretty cool resources on books too and PeachPit is a decent website to checkout.
I bought all of these at AMAZON: I did the research and it came out about 70$ cheaper (with all of these books)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 ONE ON ONE     W/ 4 HOURS OF LYNDA.COM VIDEO HOSTED BY DEKE MCCLELLAND BY DEKEPRESS (OREILLY BOOKS)
REAL WORLD CAMERA RAW WITH ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 BRUCE FRASER AND JEFF SCHEWE
THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM 2 BOOK - THE COMPLETE GUIDE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
CLASSROOM IN A BOOK CS4 - BY ADOBE
CS4 THE MISSING MANUAL *LOANED TO A FRIEND, FORGOT AUTHORS
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 FOR PHOTOTGRAPHERS A PROFESSIONAL IMAGE EDITORS GUIDE TO THE CREATIVE USE OF PHOTOSHOP FOR THE MAC AND PC   (DVD INCLUDED)  MARTIN EVENING
Lynda.com is supposed to be awesome too.
Okay, I shared, can someone help me get THE PLUG IN FOR CAMERA RAW - PLUGGED IN???  PLEASE HELP!
CS4 - VISTA - Have plugin , (will travel) just kidding, JUST NEED HELP getting it extracted into CS4 Creative Suite
Thanks!
[email protected]
Kimmy

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