Hi Nem,

Yeh good tuts are hard to find. I basically taught myself Maya through trial and error (by myself).

As for cycling a walk or run. You could try:

Saving scene when happy with your movement, and then saving the scene under a different name so as to keep your original scene untouched. From there you could try copying and pasting your Keys in timeline/graph editor and adjusting the offset along the forward axis (the way it is walking)

Use trax, happily knowing that your animation keys are backed up in another scene file.

There could also be some helpful Mel scripts at Highend 3d that make this stuff easier.

re Jim