BTW, for anyone interested in getting some good tips on how to get the retirement planning process started, I recommend a book written by Jim Cramer. It's called Stay Mad For Life. I don't know that I will follow everything he suggests in this book, but I found it very helpful in getting started on the task of getting my 401K together, putting an emergency fund together, and good advice on how to start off slowly with investing, once I am ready.
A good site for researching companies and general advice on retirement, investing, and money matters in general is
http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp . There are tools there for researching companies listed on the stock market and other tools to help you keep track of your investments and their performance.