CAPTCHAS - Please guys can you just read the previous page, or even the previous messages just a few messages before rather than reposting. I don't control the difficulty - they appear like this if you have entered a lot of captchas in a short space of time.. so just come back later.
@bitcoinaliens If I can make a suggestion? I believe that on this forum you can go back and edit your original post. If you could put up a numbered FAQ hosted somewhere that answers these questions, and then link to them from the first post, it might just help. (Be careful of SM's terms, I just read them (I now have a headache!) and helping people *too* much could be an issue for SM). The numbering is so that those of us trying to help others can just type, "please read FAQ #99" or like that.
In a forum you will always get some people who just assume that everybody is here for their benefit and just ask instead of doing a little own research. It's a "cost of doing business" ;-) I see it as no publicity is bad publicity. What if this topic vanished off the front page of the forum? (not likely but you see what I mean?)
Another common "habit" of new users is to read the first post and then hit "Reply" - often they don't even realise that their question has been answered a gazillion times before.
Daniel, I think you are doing a quite incredible job (ahem [cough] except for my occasional pleas re: my coinad account mart2013

) So I am more than happy to do my best in helping the new users in to the weird and wacky world of bitcoin

and the weirder and wackier, but highly profitable world of Planet Uruk

Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV)
Mart.