Newbie: remove background around an image

Hi,
I have Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and use it for a very limited number of tasks so needless to say when I tried something new tonight I'm totally lost. I've tried all kinds of things in PS and my searches on the forum aren't helping. I'm sure I'm searching for the wrong thing.
I have a jpg image of an irregularly shaped brown sign in front of a green wooded background. I've been trying to find a way to put this sign on a white background. I would be so grateful if someone would tell me how to go about this with PS 7.0 or point me to a tutorial that would help.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and any help you might be able to provide.

Thank you for the link I've been able to get a good bit further than before. I think this might be written for a newer version of PS than I have because the naming is different but I've been able to figure out everything up until step 6.  I did follow step "3.)" but found that was the opposite of what I needed so I deleted that step. At this point, I do have a very rough selection of the image that I would like to extract.
6.) Hit the Q key to go to Quick Mask Mode and hit the B key for the Brush Tool and choose a Brush that is semi-hard, not fully hard, but not fully soft either. If you do not have one handy, you can tailor an existing Brush to suit. Work slowly and at a high magnification. If you need to correct a brushstroke, remember Ctrl+Z, or hit the X key and your Brush becomes an eraser.
I do have a brush tool but I'm sorry I don't know how to tailor an existing Brush to make it semi-hard. I would really appreciate it if you would direct me to how to do this too. I'm sorry I'm really a novice at this stuff.

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