Okay,
I kind of get how Vector Programs work (sorta kinda... I played with AutoREALM for a reasonable while and did some medium to large scale maps with that...) but...

HELP! Inkscape is confuzzling me!!!! *feels bewildered*

Could the relevant Inkscape Gods (Sapiento? GP?) please crack out some seriously low-level intro tutorial type stuff or post some links to basic "this is the mouse, you move it and click on things"-level tutorials???

The learning curve for starting with this thing makes going from drawing stuff in Word to GIMP feel like falling off a log.