Crat has a few links on what is a good question and what is not; however, I am not in the position right now to
look for them.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlhttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.htmlThe general idea of those links is:
"Ask questions that can be answered briefly by a busy person, and that show
what you tried and what results you got, if it is a problem."
I strongly agree with Daelas's suggestion of using intermud for help,
but for anything that takes longer than a line or two to explain, the
forum might be better, since it lets people answer the question when
they eventually find the time. Plus, other newcomers can then search
the forum for that same answer later

I've read a few of Crat's posts and think I'll be using Dead Souls lib, since it seems to be the most popular
DS is an excellent choice for a complete newcomer to LPC because it's
meant to be as friendly and as documented and as full of examples
as reasonably possible. Just remember that despite all that, it'll still
take months, if not years, to master it.
It's also not completely crazy to sample some other libs to see how they
do things. It may turn out they make more sense to you in some hard-
to-explain way.
-Crat