Wrangling DNS forwarding watcha-ma-call-its

OK, so a few months ago I thought I'd be smart and choose a nifty domain name.  Then I went and set it up, and I thought all was good.  Now I just figured out I did it wrong, so all of my articles, etc, have been linked to the blogspot domain of mysearchformeaning2009.blogspot.com, instead of www.dontdoubtdave.com

AND, a bunch of my emails were getting filtered by google when I naively agreed to allow my dave@dontdoubtdave.com address forward through gmail.

woops!  Sorry Robert G. Allen -- all of your cool and useful emails weren't getting to me because google thinks your stuff is spam :)

OK, so FYI, for anyone who wants to use their own domain name for their google blog, read the google instructions carefully -- but beware there's a couple little catches.

I used enom (http://www.enom.com/Default.aspx?) as my domain name registrar.  I believe google recommended it to me, but their help docs don't explain very well how to setup the enom host record.  As well, the help instructions on enom appear to call different columns by different names than are shown... a little confusing, non?

Here are the settings that I am using to get things working properly now.

I added "blog" to the host name field.  This sets up the blog.dontdoubtdave.com domain.

I'm forwarding www.dontdoubtdave.com to my web page provider -- not sure how to get this to work seamlessly yet -- I'm doing a url redirect... the result is that in your browser address bar you will see: www3.telus.net/dontdoubtdave/, and not www.dontdoubtdave.com as I would like it to be set it up.  But I'm not sure what record type to use (if I choose CNAME and enter www3.telus.net/dontdoubtdave/ in address, I get an error)

So once the domain is set up, you then go into your blogger settings and follow the google instructions --which work well from this point.  http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/static.py?page=ts.cs&ts=1233381

I also got my email forwarding working properly now, but, oddly, using the email forwarding section -- there's a select box that has to be set so you can get into the email forwarding settings.

OK, I hope that will help anyone else having trouble with their domains.