Keyboard question

I'm not a big mouse person, I grew up with the keyboard, so that is my first choice. In the Windows world, I can do a Ctrl-Left Arrow or Ctrl-Right Arrow to move from word to word. Is there a similar thing in OS X?

Well sure! Try Alt+Arrows. And you can combine that with Shift for selecting text.
Somewhere - maybe it was in my dreams - I thought I saw a place you could reconfigure your keyboard to make Ctrl work as Alt and Cmd as Ctrl (or whatever). Replying to this post reminded me of it...I'll edit the post if I find it in the next little bit. I know, it's heresy to want to do that, but I still find myself hitting Ctrl-C, for example, and getting three more keystrokes downstream before I realize that no, I didn't copy anything. I was a master of the Keyboard Navigation Arts (in Windows. Now I am Grasshopper).

Here is a full list of keyboard shortcuts...http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

Hope this helps...