Newbie migration issues

[Rod Engelsman]

I'm in the process of migrating from MSMoney and I'm running into a few 
bumps in the learning curve. Some things just don't seem to work like I 
expect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1. Setting up my wife's student loan. What numbers is the Loan Druid 
expecting in various places? For instance, in the "Loan Information" 
dialog, where it says "Amount", is that the amount borrowed or the 
amount of the payment? Is it supposed to be positive or negative? And if 
that is the amount of the payment, then where does this thing get the 
amount of the principal from? No matter what combination of possible 
entries I make to this thing it comes up with absurd amortization schedules.

2. Setting up categories for taxes (personal income). I went through the 
business of assigning tax categories for everything, but the tax/TXF 
report shows all zero amounts. In some places it says that I have some 
code repeated (Error, Error, Will Robinson!). The situation isn't that 
complex; my wife works, I get VA education benefits, we have a couple of 
deductible categories (student loan interest and tuition) and we get Oil 
and Gas Royalties from about a half-dozen different companies (couple 
hundred bucks total a month for that).  Is it a matter of how you name 
the accounts? Once again, the intuitive approach doesn't seem to work 
and I can't find any documentation on this.

TIA