I dunno if this is going to help anyone, but here's this document. Obsidian 1000D Unofficial User Manual
I'd like to illustrate it with some of the images in this thread (and some of my own), but I don't know if you guys would be down for that. Zotty particularly has some really good right-in-the-beginning pictures (which I never remember to take).
Pretty much just posted this in from Word, so it's pretty fragmentary. Also missing a few sections near the end.