As a newcomer to Max I hit F1 and almost every time I get "no reference found".
The docs are bad but that sounds like a seperate problem.
Skid was talking about a doc update a couple of weeks ago with the possibility of adding a few user-written tutorials to the package. I still say BRL should hold a regular 'Document a command' competition with 'BRL-Miles' to the winner. The BRL-miles could be uses as a 'discount' against BRL products.