I'll definitely agree with Vaulera.  She sucked.  Just kidding, and this is the first time I've RPed with her.  I agree that you are doing better than I did when I joined almost three and a half years ago, though, and stuff like that still gets me, though for me it's being overly cautious.  I waited four days making sure it was okay to beat up an unnamed NPC, and even then I played it pretty conservatively (LA thread if ya wanna read it).