New to FrameMaker

Does anyone have good suggestions or recommendations for where one can find
information about FrameMaker 8 for the new writer. I'm not new to writing,
just to FrameMaker. But I can't afford to spend lots of money trying to
get some use out of this "new toy". :-)

I have been banging my head against the keyboard now, trying to figure out
how to take the work that I've done (in HTML) for, and make it into a nice
FM book.

Unfortunately, the users guide, and other information from the Adobe site
appear to use, and depend upon information, or configuration details (EDDs)
that do not exist for the person who just installed FM "out of the box".

Are some EDDs, or templates, or whatever, freely available for someone like
myself?

Thanks in advance