I know I've run into this problem more than a few times, you're looking for answers and all you seem to be able to get results for on a search engine are spam sites and other people with similar questions it seems like some problems just don't have answers. Or do they?
Joel has created a sort of an open Q&A site which will hopefully break the problems that programmers run into on a frequent basis.
Here's his blog on the subject:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html
And here's the site itself:
http://stackoverflow.com/