Calendar 2.0 Help on Future Events

Hi, I originally posted here http://drupal.org/node/290365, but was told to open new topic, so here i am now...
My question is;

I just installed drupal (2 weeks now) and played around with calender of which i would like to display future events. I have searched and searched but there is alot of talk going backward (older version, integration) and i am getting quite confused on how to get a future event (Not necessarily using the EVENT module) to show up on my calendar. Say, Thanksgiving. I believe its on Thurs, 27 Nov 2008, for this year. could someone explain to me (if not too much trouble) or let me know what documents i should be reading? again, im newbie on drupal, but have extensive programing (just not PHP).

im running Drupal 6.x, and just loaded/updated latest Calendar, Date, CCK, etc (just now), so i have all latest updates. I do not have the EVENT module installed (should i?). I have created a content type and added it to my calendar to display events for (today)

thanks!

and jblackhall, was kind enough to reply with;

jblackhall - October 17, 2008 - 02:39
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Category: support request » feature request

You should create your own topic next time instead of asking a new question in a current topic. To answer your question, Just remove the "for today" part from your filters. Under "Fields" make sure you have at least "Node: Title" and "Date: your_cck_date_field", where your_cck_date is a field under the Event node type you created with CCK. For filters, you should just do something like "Node: Published" and "Node Type: Is one of: your_cck_event_node". The reason what you've got set up isn't working is because you're only showing events for "today". You shouldn't have any reference to "Date: your_cck_date" in your View Filters. That goes in your View Fields.

But i am still at a loss... Can some one please tell me the steps to do to get "Future Events" on my calendar. I am not quite following the quote from jblackhall above. would like to know
1) do need to install EVENT module?
2) am i supposed to create a node, page, ??? that will then get posted to the calendar for future events?
3) where is the "for today" part injblckhall response? My filter currently doesnt have anything but the new content type i created.
4) a step by step [not necessarly detail, maybe like a) create page/node b) add filter to view c) ...] would help

again, i dont mind reading more doc's but i have searched quite a bit to no avail...
all help is appreciated!