Questions About Content

After much searching, I have come to the conclusion that I am either blind or clueless when it comes to content that doesn't come with an installer, like V4 and other models. Like I said in my introduction thread, I am really new to digital artwork. It's something that I've always looked at from the other side of the glass and thought "Damn, I wish I could do that." Well now that I'm trying my hand at it, I see how confusing certain aspects of it can be. I had been messing around with some of the default content that comes with Daz to make some "okay" stuff, so I had never encountered this problem until I tried to get something from a different website. I have scoured tutorials on Daz's website, Renderosity, YouTube, and here, and I can't find the answers for the questions that I have.

My content folders lies behind the path User/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio 3/content. One of the tutorials that I watched from Daz on Youtube, said that until a novice user becomes comfortable with the program that all content should go in the folder listed above. So like a good little nublet, I put a few things that I thought I'd try from VAMP (I know that most of you all that create content for VAMP play around here, which is why I thought this would probably be my best place to ask) into said content folder above. I don't think that was the right place to put it, because the end result was me completely uninstalling and reinstalling Daz after a bunch of my "default" content wouldn't work.

I know this is long winded, and I'm sorry, but I just feel kinda overwhelmed. It seems that there are lots of tutorials for certain things, but then the things that I am looking for, and would like a step by step instructional for, just to make sure I don't screw things up myself, I can't find. So if any of you could offer a little guidance, or even if you don't feel like explaining it yourself, know of a place I could find this information in detail to help myself, I would be incredibly grateful. Thanks a ton in advance.

Kat

Late Edit: So after even more searching, I found this old tutorial about installing and finding new content. http://www.tuitzone.com/DSTut_07

From what I can understand, is that, all content will go into the default file setting that I listed above, even .zip files. So if that's true, then I don't understand why the files I got and installed into that exact file setting messed up my default content and caused it not to run right. Can someone please tell me if I'm installing these files right by installing them into the user/documents/daz3d/studio3/content folder?