... additionally, how no idea how to power the AM blades :| I'm terrified of stripping electrical wiring :|
It's very simple to get going. Just take an adapter you have lying around like a molex to SATA adapter, cut it in half, strip the cable back a couple millimeters, then insert the copper into the green terminal block. 2 minutes to make a little adapter then you can use any PC power supply.
Ok. Sounds easy enough. Emailed friedcat to order a single blade.
So I just connect the molex adapter to a power supply, strip two of the wires and plug it into the blade, set up Slush's Stratum proxy to point at Bitminter, and I'm ready to go, in theory ?
Don't forget you need to jumpstart your PSU with a paper clip inserted into the 24pin connector. You need to make a bridge with the clip between the green cable and a black one.