New to Solaris (unix) - basic questions (please)

Hello!
I am completely new in Solaris World, and in fact in Linux too. All I can do (may be) is to walk throught dir tree. I have one big question and many many small ones. I've just installed Solaris 10 (writing this there), I am very happy and I don't know what to do. I hope you can give me some advice. Well, the big question is where to get information about how to do basic tasks I've been doing in windows?
The smaller questions (problems) is:
1) When I boot solaris it actually goes to console, and no window system (GNOME, CDE) appears. I've already been lucky for 2 times and I managed to launch windows by typing 'gnome-terminal', but it ofter respond with something and no window system lauched. Can I do so, that window system launched automatically?
2) I have primary partition on my hard drive with FAT 32 to share files with WindowsXP. Where can I see these files in Solaris (may be I should mount, how?)
3) How can I see files on my USB flash (how to mount)
4) Do I have to install drivers for my monitor(video card) in Solaris?
5) When I type 'man' its ok, but 'man ls' respond 'No manual entry for ls' (and all other commands. How to fix it?
6) Where I should store my files (doc, music etc. ). In windows its typically on different partitions (folders)
Thank you, and hoping for help.

Well you've a long road ahead. But heres a start:
Answer to Question 1) /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -eQuestion 2) If there are FAT32 driver in Solaris 10 (There weren't to my knowledge in Sol9 or earlier) you would need to mount them.
'man mount'
Question 3) would be similar to the answer to question 2, although you may be able to configure autofs for it 'man autofs'
Question 4) Not necessarily, but to get full functionality of your video card, yes - see manufacturers website
Question 5) Your MANPATH environment variable is bad OR you did not install them .... try 'pkginfo SUNWman' if it returns anything but not found try 'MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/sfw/man ;export MANPATH' You can add additionaly directories pointing to manpage install locations by adding a colon followed by the directory.. first off hit 'man man'
Question 6) Gnome will help once you get it going (see answer 1). Otherwise store it however you like, just don't let the root partition get full or you'll likely crash it.

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