Excuse my lazy minimalist posting. ;o)
lol,sorry if i appeared rude, :) that wasnt my intention.
i havent floated around in the ide for long,so please excuse my beginnerness.
I had a good look around,and it appears that i was in fact looking in the wrong place.since max always opens on the source file,i spent my search in the right hand pane,where the module stuff is.though and behold, a little twinkle on the top-left hand side of the text editor drew me towards the 'help' tab (:-]),which linked to the articles you mentioned.
thanks for your help guys,i really appreciate it,and that does indeed answer my question.