Welcome to the lockon forums, probably one of the most friendly communities out there definitely. So you wont have any trouble finding some help. :)
Why don't you download Hyperlobby and get flying on there, meet some new people, get some pointers and anything else you need to know?
there are heaps of great tutorials and stuff over at Flanker Training:
http://flankertraining.com/ironhand/index.html
if you're like me and you dont have an infinite amount of downloads then you might get a taste of traffic shaping when you go to flankertrainin as the videos are pretty huge.
(I wonder if someone could render these out as wmv and upload them to youtube)
Flankertraining should get you most of the basics :)