Hi Norm,
I still haven't gotten around to installing the auto leveller yet, but I hope to do it soon. I have run through at least 3kg's of filament though - this printing thing is addictive! At this stage, I do a quick manual level once in a while, but mostly just watch the first layer going down and tweak the bed while it's running till I'm happy with how the layer is forming. Printing on blue tape and getting nice first layers and no issues with getting prints to stick.
With the menu options, for the most part I use: the 'quick settings' sub-menu - 'Home All', 'Disable Steppers' and 'Preheat PLA'. the 'Print' sub-menu - 'Print'. and the 'SD Card' sub-menu - 'Print', 'Pause', 'Stop' and the 'Mount/Unmount Card' functions. I'm assuming you know how the menu buttons work though - centre button for menu, right button to select option, up/down buttons to navigate.
If there's something you're struggling with, let me know and I'll try and help.
Cheers.