SAM Guide
Now, I wrote this guide, BUT if you look near the bottom of the thread, Filian did nominate that it get stickied in place of the old one, Samurai 101. He just didn't make a thread here. Also, the general feedback from other posters seems to be good.
My purpose in writing the guide was to (like Filian said) replace the old Sticky/Guide, which has not been updated in quite a while.
Please consider making this a sticky in the SAM forums, and please PM me if you have any questions.
Thank you.