Yep it's resolved now, the coins showed up this morning. I'd recommend get-bitcoin, I was a little wary of sending cash in the mail but they seem very reliable.

Oh thanks Stephen, I had looked at that page before but somehow missed that part. That makes sense, so I guess now I just have to wait.

Thanks so much to both of you for your help!

It says I have 8 connections and the block count keeps rising, so I'd assume it's downloading. But when the block count gets up to the present my bitcoins will be available to me?

114400 blocks

So I bought bitcoins from Get-Bitcoin by sending them cash, and I downloaded the bitcoin application. I got an e-mail that said:

"Thanks for using GetBitcoin! Your payment has been confirmed, and your Bitcoins have been sent. You should receive your Bitcoin within the next few hours.

Order Number: 922
Order Amount: 35.0 USD

Bitcoin Price: 3.52 USD/BTC
Bitcoin Bought: 9.94318 BTC
Transaction Fee (5%): 0.49716 BTC
Bitcoin Sent: 9.44602 BTC "

But I waited a day and it still hadn't showed up. Get-bitcoin customer service told me to download the block chain, so I downloaded it from http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/ , and it still hasn't showed up. Now what do I do? I really don't have any technical skills, can someone please help me out?