Dear Sue
Don't feel too bad, you join the growing list of new users who's first experience of the internet is to be ripped off.
Here's a URL in this forum of another user like yourself that fell victim to a flashy advert that seems to offer everything that you were looking for, except that in reality it offers nothing.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...312#post112312
The only thing you can really draw from this experience is that you will not fall for this type of advert again.
UK Bob