That's right, read the little pamphlet first. The pdf I found and use is from the verizon site. It's the same as Andor posted. I don't want the extra junk around so I'm glad not to have the hard-copy.
1937Kb, 56 pdf pages, 54 document page numbers, last 10 pages legal, very last page blank.
Still, it's insane that the phone doesn't have a "Help" icon right on the homepage that pops up a tutorial, the bookmark list of this pdf, and other help options, including a hot button to call Verizon support. There are some computers that have forced you to go through a tutorial the first time you boot-up, so at least having "an app for that" right on the desktop would seem kinda basic.
Having to d/l a pdf, and view it by scrolling and magnifying and sliding around every page to read it on the device that it's needed on is really pretty lame. The manual pages should be the same aspect ratio as the droid display when displayed at a readable size. Of course tha would convert the present document into 100 pages of user guide and 30 pages of legal (I luv zees cuntree!!) It's like the government and criminals though, between Google, Verizon, and Motorola they're all wanting the other one(s) to do the work and pay the price for a good help app, which really is specific to the Verizon Motorola Droid 855p.
I think that 4 website / forum groups I've found are mushrooming with new users and page hits is because of this. The Verizon tech support tell me #1 I already know more than them, #2 I need to "play with it more". I think the big 3 need to "WORK with it more" and make a good, native help app.