I wandered over to Barnes and Noble this morning to check out the large collection of computer geek books and notice a book called "Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From Novice to Professional" published by apress. I was very enlightened to find that it mentioned the forums as well as Bill's Ubuntu Document Storage Facility website.
Thanks. Ubuntu seems pretty straightforward to me, but then you never know what you might be missing, so I’ll probably check this out when I’m at the local B&N.