Tearing my hair out!

Having noticed the smart scrollers on Dale's and Magz's blogs, by courtesy of Gemmak, I decided I would like one too, but, being the independent, stubborn creature that I am, I wanted it to be a learning experience - I wanted to do it myself! So I started.....at 7 o'clock....and finished.......at 11o'clock BUT I did it!
In fact, I did it within the first 10 minutes but the wretched thing just showed as an empty white box, so I thought I must have done something wrong - hence, another 3 hours and 50 minutes of fiddling, doing, previewing, undoing, redoing and copious sighs, ranting and swearing.
But what a great feeling of achievement when I discovered I had done it...followed by total disbelief that I had wasted all that extra time unnecessarily. (How many books could I have read?) I still don't know what the problem was, but it works and that's the main thing....I think!
You know what they say: A man who never made a mistake never made anything. I suppose that goes for women too????