Tutorials for Illustrator Graphing Tool

Can anyone recommend any clear, good video tutorials for using the AI graphing tool? I have looked at quite a few online, and none are really making it clear enough for me.
I admit to not knowing how to do graphs in Excel either, as I imagine this might make the process easier. I'm still on CS2. My version of Office is old as well, which might be why importing info from Excel just produces a lot of gobbledegook in the AI graph cells.
I'm doing a project where I have to do quite a few of them (an annual report), and I'm at my wit's end trying to do them. I know they're probably not as difficult as it seems - can anyone point me in the right direction?

Here is the tutorial which is not a video so you have to read fortunately Mordy wrote this and he is one of the best at writing concise and user friendly instructions. And why he now makes more money then Adobe has ever hope to make from Illustrator!
Rrrriiighhtt. I wish. Then again, if I had that kind of money, I prolly would have invested it all with Bernie Madoff....
Seriously, my Illustrator CS4 Beyond the Basics video training at Lynda.com is going live on April 3, and it has an entire chapter on graphing. Since graphs haven't changed since like Illustrator 8, you'll still benefit from it.
I know it sounds crazy to even mention this, but Adobe's help files on the graph functions aren't that bad -- you might take a look at those and see if they'll help. Also, if you have CS2, you'll want to make sure you have the 12.01 update installed (it's a free download from Adobe), as there was a nasty bug that turned numbers that you paste from Excel into Illustrator turn into garbage characters. Sounds like you might need that patch (choose Help > Updates from Illustrator).
Hopefully, this helps somewhat.
I feel bad because several years ago, I recorded an eSeminar with Adobe called "Making Number Look Good" but after searching Adobe's website, I was not able to find a link to that recording. They must have taken it down...
:) Mordy

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