I completely agree, but as with the thread...well, it's kind of the same situatiion, isn't it? Unless you've been here from the beginning and saw it, would the "thread of useful links" be obvious? I'm only asking that half-rhetorically. The few forums I've participated in, over the years, I've been with from the launch, so I have no idea what it's like to be the "RTFM guy," so to speak.
I'm thinking about how to solve the problem, but it's quickly a closed loop. Like, I'd gladly spearhead collaboration putting together a book for the community of where to find information and how to use it (there are tools I'm dying for an excuse to try out, actually), but...how does a user find the book, once it's written? Write another book to tell people about it? What does that proverbial bottom tortoise stand on, exactly? It feels like you'd need to get George Lucas to digitally insert the directions into the next re-release of Star Wars or something, to get it in front of people...