Does anyone have some recommended sites that offer elementary guides for using UnrealED?

The tutorial that comes with it is pretty good if I remember correctly. Think of the map as a huge block of stone that you are carving out from the inside. You draw in a room on the 2d views then ...

The Unreal Technology page has been updated with a fix for the UnrealEd that was included with the Unreal Tournament 432 patch.

The Unreal Tech page has a large update by Warren Marshall of Epic going over quite a bit of new info about the upcoming next release of UnrealED. Worth checking out if you're a level monkey ...