also bookmarked....   thanks again TeamRoa.. 

Great tutorials there.

Andrew Kramer has created a lot of great tutorials over at video copilot. If you look through the dream gallery here you can see that a lot of dream creators have used his tutorials, including myself.

Another site that has a good bit of useful information on After Effects and other programs is Creative Cow. You can find a few good free tutorials there also.

Yea, I forgot about Creative Cow. I use VideoCopilot a lot more then anything else. One thing that Anderw Kramer always talks about is Trapcode's plug-ins like Particular. Everyone should try it out to see how awesome / amazing it really is so here is the link to Trapcodes website (Yes you can just try it because buying it is a lot of money):

http://www.trapcode.com/products.html

"Form" is another good one by Trapcode.

There's a good tutorial by Aharon Rabinowiz for looping particle streams, including Particular, at Creative Cow. Great for creating Dreams.

Some more here too http://www.toolfarm.com/index.html 

What version are you guys using? I have been using Adobe After Effects CS4. 

CS4

What file type do you render out your video as?

Uncompressed AVI. After that I do my encoding withTMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. Normally I encode to 1920x1080 mpeg2.