Is it just me or are most product manuals we get pretty much worthless? Even the html based ones do little more than list "features" and how to turn them on and off. My new cell phone, this Lingo service, my fax machine, etc. I'll dig through the menus on a product, come across an option I've never heard of, look it up in the manual and only get a description of where to find that option in the menus. Thanks. I guess it's asking too much to get an xplanation of what that feature does or how it might interact with other settings. It's really frustrating.

Just trying to get my fax machine to work with VoIP, I had a whole page of collected tid bids I had found on the web. Very little was from an tech support persons or manuals. It got to the point I had to collect all the info and build a small tutorial just so that other people out there might get to live without the headache I had to go through to get this thing working.

I'd be set if someone did the same thing for my cell phone!

Have you guys have similar experiences with consumer electronic goods?