Hi adam_blackice,

If you are confused about anything in particular please let us know. If you stick by the posting advice given in How do I post a question effectively?, the kind monks will give you all the help they can.

Check out the PerlMonks FAQ if you have not already done so, it is a useful guide to this site. The Tutorials section of this site has a stack of great material broken down by subject, and is a great learning resource.

Update:
As well as checking out http://learn.perl.org you may be interested in the replies given to the following posts Why Perl Monks Works for Me, Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer and Study Perl with somebuddy ?

Hope this helps.

Martin