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Practice, practice, practice!
Perms & combs are hellish (not sure if you're doing that). But once you get past those and go on to others things (chi-square, etc), it's a lot better. At the end of it all, I really eneded up liking Stats! (It's a much appreciated break from term papers, that's for sure.) I'd say that the more examples you do, the easier it gets... the procedures stay the same, and only the numbers differ.
I hated Stats to start with, but ended up liking it enough in the end. I was lucky in that I could understand all my profs, and while the textbook was the most useless thing in the world, the practice questions & answer sheets prepared by profs were really helpful.

Good luck!