For those of us who have never before participated in the St. Jude auction, is there a thread that explains how to enter bids, track the progress, etc.?  

Up at the top of the auction page there is a thread, pretty sure.

Here you go.

http://auction1.tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=162;t=000006

Sam, It is a works just like the pow wow except with your hard earned money.  The link is in yellow at the top of the main forum page or at the top of the pow wow.

Stuck to the top of the auction page are several threads that spell everything out.  The first auction thread is a listing conference.  The following ones are the actual auction conferences.  Go check it out, son.  you have until the 20th to start figutring out how to spend your wife's money!

Thanks guys. Gregg, I'll try to save a few coins to spend at TBOF in August, but when my wife turns me loose with money, she always tells me not spend all three dollars in one place.

Sam, send me your check book and I will do all the bidding for you.....  heres  what I do, when I make a bid I write down the item info, page number and ammount of bid...hard to keep track otherwise..

No sense keeping track until 1 second before the deadline  :D