Motion 4 newbie tutorial?

Ok I know you're all on 5 now, but I had to get an upgrade of FCS for SL and I've been advised to avoid FCP X like the plague - so I found an FCS3 box - which has Motion 4. Never tried Motion before so I thought I'd give it a go.
But:
When the project opens it offers you: "View the Quick Tours" - that just takes you to an FCPX page - no good to me.
Next option is: "Begin with an Online Tutorial" - again an FCPX page - with some proprietory tutorials. These seem quite random and advanced.
Have apple taken down the beginner's M4 tutorials?
Have they taken down the beginners's M5 tutorials?
Would an M5 tutorial even be any use to an M4 user?
Is there anywhere I can go to get started?
I have decades of Avid, FCP and Photoshop, but never needed M before, so need a total newbie guide.
Thanks
Tom

OK - I found one
http://www.vtc.com/products/Apple-Motion-4-Tutorials.htm

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To help other server newbies easily setup Server 10.5 (as apple claims), I'm hoping to make a basic installation procedure that will always work for newbies. Right now it's not exactly "detailed" - just the basic steps to ensure success.
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• subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
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• dhcp server ends at = 10.0.2.99
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user name: Administrator
short name: admin
password: admin
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subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
router = 10.0.2.1
dns server = 10.0.2.2
search domain = house
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Hi gikku,
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In the future, please add some line breaks so I don't have to scroll horizontally to read your post.
The problem is that the CalcBean.add/.multiply method is requiring two parameters. This method should be parameter-less. When talking about action methods, they should return String and not take any parameters.
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CowKing
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