My first recommendation would be to head over to
FFDS and check out their forums, since they focus predominantly on FSDS.
Thanks for the plug, but I bet you'll find as many Max/gmax posts as there are FSDS related. The key thing in FS modelling (especially since FSDS 3/3.5 came out) is that the compilers are the SAME...
My suggestion for a new modeller in FSDS is to go through ALL the tutorials first and then start experimenting. Many modellers end up using different modelling techniques and short cuts that to a new modeller are confusing.
(Maybe I should dust off my on-again off-again FSDS tutorial uasing the default Citation...)