I've gone through and done a massive purging of this thread. I got rid of super specific questions, all of the "what is a Wii" questions, and basically everything else that isn't going to help anyone in the future. What's left should be things that are actually useful, so that now when noobs are sent here they don't have to dig through 2000 posts of useless stuff for occasional goodies.
Also, thanks again to everyone who took the time to patiently everyone's questions throughout the lifetime of this thread (including mine!).