Hi,
let me respond to the subject. I don't know about the rest of the
mail, sorry.
Anyway, the usual way to detect a newbie and give help to them seems
to be to assume everyone a newbie and give little hints, startup tips,
... till they learn enough to turn them off. For examples see gimp or
mc.
MfG
Goswin
PS: One of the hints better be how to turn the hints off. :)