openoffice is supposed to be a good Office alternative.
Also, check out the apple tutorials. I found they gave me a good running start.
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
I found that for burning stuff Toast 9 was the answer. The included stuff seemed pretty limited plus Toast has a bunch of other uses.
quicksilver is really cool for quick key commands and it does a bunch of other stuff I don't know yet.
Firefox of course.
Here is also an article from Wired with suggestions:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize...X_Installation
Another useful link:
http://www.myfirstmac.com/
Another switcher's guide:
http://flernk.blogspot.com/2006/07/g...switchers.html