If I can stick my 2 cents in here I'll vote for the quality over quantity -- a little piece of chocolate being better than 40 dozen rice cakes, IMHO.

I'll bet the moderators will recognize a Powerful Post when they see it!

I think the idea of having some good answers to basic questions (why is water important?) is a good one, too, but it might be that newcomers ask the basic questions partly for information and partly to interact. If the board gets to the point where the Top Ten Newbie questions are always answered with a link to an faq, it may lose something. (I've run into this elsewhere. We solved the problem by giving a brief, personal answer and then referring the poster to the faq.)