I used this primer as a guide:
http://www.mcnews.com/mcn/technical/JAN06spokes1.pdffor some reason when I first read this pdf I had to hand edit the url and change the digit (2~6) to find the rest of the pages. So page two is "JAN06spokes2.pdf" and so forth. Then when I had the tire mounted my friendly mechanic checked the truing and told me it was better than he usually managed..so I felt pretty good about that :-)