I really try and use Illustrator but find I always go back to photoshop cause I'm most comfortable with it for one but that there is more ways to get the effects I'm looking for BUT I lose the vector part. On that note does anyone have a really good overview of Illustrator because I have decided I want to know how to use it more and get more into it this year? My other question is what is character styles and what do they do?
Tanks in Advance!

Ok...haven't bought from England area. Is it a hassle to ship to U.S.? I'd be interested in the total CS DVD's.
Thanks for the link Mr. Mod!

giraffenecks.com
http://www.sketchpad.net/illustrator.htm
graphicssoft.about.com
www.illustratortechniques.com
http://carijansen.com/tips/007/index.php
http://www.magicalbutterfly.com/tutorials/meshtutorial
http://www.khulsey.com/student.html

oooooooooooooooooooh graph... character styles is kinda like making a pie... a tastey pie...

actually character styles is like setting up a set of specific options that ya want to incorporate into a layout to make life a lot simpler... kinda like yer actions tab in photoshop.. er... ever more so like CSS fer webapages..

like headers is this font, bold, italic,... blahblahblah... ya push a key command and yer text is set to that specific.. easier than highlight text.. bold this font, mess everythin up... smashpunchkick ... and keeps things consistant

what ya wanna master is the pen tool... master the pen tool and youll be about to make fantastically illustrations AND nice clean clipping paths for both illustrator AND photoshop...

pm me whatcha wanna know ... wait a sec... YOU STOLE MY CARS IDEA AND GOT MORE VOTES!!!! BOOOO HISSSSSS!!!!...

Damn!! He remembered! Thanks for the def beeters. I'm going to try that but I'm sure I'll have questions as I go along. Thanks for the offer.