Welcome sody. As you have seen you can get really good information here. Most everybody will be helpful, and understanding of the occasional error.
Welcome to the wonderful, and budget breaking, world of C&R. Do you have a "first" in mind yet. There are still some pretty good milsurps available.
My latest is a Walther P1 from AIM that just arrived Wednesday. You'll learn to love the Big Brown Truck.
When you get your license make copies. Sign them and send copies to all the distributors. Get put on their mailing lists. that's a sure way to break your bank account!
Also places like Midway USA, and Graf and Sons will give you a discount if you send them a copy.
The BATF has OKed FAXed copies to the distributors, but some still don't take them, and want a mailed hard copy. I just send the hard copy to all when I get my renewal. that makes it for sure.
Here is another forum that gets more involved with C&R, and can provide a lot of good information.
http://milsurpshooter.net/