Denise, Have you taken the time to browse through and view any of the video tutorials at Adobe TV..
I recommend them you can learn a lot from them, and it will make things easier..

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photo...6ED49339053505

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-adobe-bridge-cs5/

http://tv.adobe.com/search/?q=CS5+Camera+Raw

And Planet Photoshop has some pretty good tutorials. Though more for the graphics artist/designer you can learn a lot from them.
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/category/tutorials

The Russell Brown Show.
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Layers Magazine
http://layersmagazine.com/category/photoshop