Thanks again for your help so far. Further help would be much appreciated. I know it might sound absurd fighting that much for BTC 0.001, but first that's 5% of my fortune

and second I'm really trying to test all that stuff to gain a deeper understanding of the technic behind bitcoin.
I know exactly what you mean. Just give it time, because it's peer-to-peer it will naturally take a while for your transfer to be confirmed. It takes on average around 6 hours for each of my transfers to be confirmed.
Also I'd give up trying to figure out how Bitcoins work, I mine for them and I STILL can't figure them out. :p