I'm in the same situation as you, healthy01. I too am brand new to the Mac world, having just bought my first one over the Christmas holidays.
I was at Indigo book store a few days after buying the mac, and noticed they have a "Mac OS X Leopard for dummies" book. I've had a couple of other "for dummies books", and found they are well written in plain english for "Joe Average". I bought the book, and am 3/4 of the way through it. It has been helpful, and I also use it as a desk reference (just used it to find something today, in fact).