Where to find useful FDM documentation?

Hello all,
I really hate posting a question like this, but I'm at my wits end and need help...
I'm trying to figure out how to use FDM to import, map, and export (i.e., load) into Essbase about as simple a comma-delimited text file as I can imagine. I have spent many, many hours reading the FDM Administrator's Guide and trying out different interpretations of the instructions presented in that guide, but I haven't been able to succeed with the most basic requirement of skipping certain records during the import.
It's apparent from reading this forum that many people are utilizing core capabilities of FDM that aren't clearly documented, if at all, in the Administrator's Guide. So my question is where can I find additional documentation that goes beyond the Administrator's Guide to reveal the details of FDM?
To cite one example of useful information that is not in the Administrator's Guide, one poster to this forum indicated that records such as these in an import file...
!SCENARIO=ACTUAL
!PERIOD=SEPTEMBER
!YEAR=2008
!VIEW=YTD
!VALUE=USD
!COLUMN_ORDER=ENTITY,ACCOUNT,ICP,CUSTOM1,CUSTOM2,CUSTOM3,CUSTOM4,AMOUNT
!DATA
..."[tell] FDM to set those 5 dimensions to those values for all following records." Where is that kind of information about FDM documented?
Regarding my specific problem, the Administrator's Guide suggests that I can easily skip records during import via the import format simply by specifying Skip for the Field Name and the text in the Expression field that I want to trigger skipping a record. I've tried a variety of skip expressions with my comma-delimited file, but it mostly doesn't work as I would expect. For example, I can successfully skip records containing "1234" in the fourth field with the skip expression "1234". However, if I change the skip expression to "12345" FDM does not skip records containing "12345" in the fourth field. What the heck is up with that? I certainly haven't seen anything in the Administrator's Guide that would lead me to believe "1234" would work but "12345" wouldn't!
Any help that can be offered with either FDM documentation or my specific import problem will be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks, JTF. It sounds like the FDM Administrator class may be essential to learning FDM and obtaining essential documentation.
Thanks once again to this forum, I did find an FDM Scripting Fundamentals Guide, which might be the API document you're referring to.
Another question for everyone...When I select Help from the menu in FDM Workbench, FDM tells me "4200 - The specified file was not found." Consequently, I'm unable to access any online help for the FDM Workbench. Does a help file for FDM Workbench even exist, but has somehow gone missing from my installation? If one does exist, does it contain any worthwhile information?
If someone confirms that a useful help file exists, then I'll look into repairing my FDM installation and hopefully locating the help file.
Thanks.

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