I think I adore you. I have friends who are veteran RPers from the tabletop and email world, but find gaming on IJ kind of baffling. This is a great start to a lot of what they need to know to make that jump.
I keep saying I'm going to do an in-depth how to of the mechanics of posting for thread-based and journal-based games (headers, vocabulary, etc.), but haven't gotten there yet and this hits the needed high level points. Thanks for writing it up.