Re: Where to find basic instructions
Hm, no real instruction manual as such. And no question is a noob question 
With regards to features, you can read this page https://buddypress.org/, find some BuddyPress introduction videos from WordCamp conferences at http://wordpress.tv/category/buddypress/. I’ve just got back from WordCamp Ireland where I did an introduction to BP session; slides are at http://slideshare.net/DJPaul/wordcamp-ireland-2010-introduction-to-buddypress
If you can ask us a specific question about BuddyPress, we can come up with a more specific answer (hopefully!)
