never used that site for tuts before lol, however there are a shedload of tuts for max on the net, plus it ships with a fair few tuts as well. i have found max to have a very user friendly ui and it is a simple thing to learn to use. i thought myself on max and still use max 5, (can`t afford to upgrade) i`d tell you to persevere man, max is one of the best modeling apps to be had.