All that frustration & going in circles? Yeah. I've been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. And I hear you about not being told at this point what you should have done way back when.

In addition to the Forums recommended by Abbie, I'm going to suggest one more, the Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum24.html

You can re-post your intro, starting a thread on each of the forums suggested by Abbie as well as on TOS. There's a fair amount of traffic, so I'd check them daily.

Then, as (BrokenWings) said, ask questions, ask more, & keep asking till you know you're on the right path--till your gut tells you you're walking in the right direction. If you run into road blocks, we'll listen . When you finally get that manta working, we know how to party !