Recently elvis published a challenge to help in the forums. Let me reiterate my commitment to this: I am willing to help in the forums but I am not willing to sift through the drek ( I left the forums because of "high friction" threads ). So, if you find a thread which asks for menu (esp menu v6) or fapi help, just let me know, I can always be found on #drupal.
It's too bad there isn't a programmatic way to get notifications/rss feeds of only forum posts with specific keywords or something.
I committed to helping in Installing Drupal and Post installation. I used to get 20 new posts in my feed reader every morning. Now it's 90+. I know how you feel about wading through to find something that is solvable without investing hours of time...
It's the "Drupal sucks" "why Drupal does not have a wysiwyg in core" "why drupal is not X" etc. It's too frustrating.