Can you find someone in my area who can teach me enough of Adobe
Photoshop (at my home) to get started with the program, and serve as a
consultant afterwards?

I live in Westchester County, NY.  I would pay the going hourly rate,
for both the teaching and follow up consulting help.

I use Total Training CD to learn Adobe products.  They are very very good.
This is what I found on EBAY.
 
Search: Total training adobe

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3786&item=3686683761&rd=1

Their website is:

http://www.totaltraining.com

What is nice about these products are first, they are very good and
second you can learn at your own pace.

I have purchased from Ebay and direct from TotalTraining with no problems.  

Good luck

1. Google Answers  --  are you still trying to get an answer for me,
or you don't expect to have an answer?

2. just4fun2-ga.  Thanks for your help.  But I still need an
experienced person or teacher to come into my home.  For example,
before I can get started on a photo project of scanning a few thousand
family photos into Photoshop, I need some help with using the limited
filing system to number pics by date, person and place, in order to be
able to locate them later.  A couple of people have suggested add-ons,
like ACDC Viewer or Photoshop Album.  Others have included a
complicated numbering and lettering system for file names.  I need a
consultant to help me decide whether I need an add-on or can do it in
Photoshop, and what would be the best way.  I'm trying to avoid
getting started and then having to redo many hours of work because of
an unworkable file solution.

That's just one question that would probably not be answered on a CD. 
But thank you very much, anyway.