Right on - spent the last day and a half reading through things you guys posted...
mf-tzo - Thanks much for the instant feedback. Got my wallet up and running on 0.9.1 and claimed all my shares. I have BTS and NOTES now
Stan - The post was both entertaining and informative. I'm more well-informed now, but still confused! More reading to do I suppose.
kenCode - Thank you for the offer, but I was able to get up and running and register a name with my claimed shares.
Many evolutions have occurred since my last review! PTS is now Bitshares PTS? BTSX converted to BTS?
Also up on the research list is the delegate election process. That clearly seems to have value. How does one go about getting votes to be a delegate?