Blender 2.62 Default Scene Tutorial

In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, before starting to read a letter, the White Rabbit asks the King

`Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?'.
`Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, `and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

That’s basically what I would like to do with my Blender tutorials. My goal is to redo all of them in Blender 2.62. I think we can all agree that the logical starting point is the initial default scene, so that’s where I’ll start. We’ll first tour the initial splash screen.