Thanks a ton for your help. I've been scouring over different sites and so forth the last couple of days and so far you have been the most helpful. Now maybe another question you can help me with.

The Yamaha Education Suite featured on boards like the PSR-E403 seemed like an attractive feature to me, but considering I have never learned how to play I don't know how convient the on-board teacher would be or if it is even any good. Like I said I want to teach myself, and I'll be doing it in a dorm room with my keyboard, a laptop, and any book I might buy, so I guess the question here is how good is the Y.E.S. on the Yamaha boards and does something like the Casio board you mentioned have a similar better/worse system?

Sorry if that's a bunch of jumbled up nonsense, but once again thanks for your help.