Appreciate the links but it actually illustrates the problem. The first video is 26 minutes, and the second is 13, that's 40 minutes of video content to cover this wallet topic? Too much for me right now.

I'm in the middle of finals, work tomorrow, need to get documents sent out tonight for a professional obligation. When I do get a week off between classes, and life will just be full time work, I plan to dump a bunch of miners on eBay and build a new rig. I can invest time into mining, but this wallet stuff seems like it should be so much easier! I mean, is it not incredibly paranoid about the offline stuff with a freshly installed OS? Seems like overkill, but maybe I'm too trusting. I know the more valuable BTC becomes the more hackers will attack wallets, hoping for an easy and affordable solution to come out sometime soon. I just can't see a clear winner from the suggestions, something like this should be so much easier.