Money Matters

I've come to realize that I know zilch about investing. Nada. I know that you can do the stock market thing, IRAs, Roth-IRAs, money market accounts, bonds, savings accounts and other such things, but ultimately I only really understand savings accounts.

Now that I'm out of my "every penny goes to school expenses" rut, I suppose I should start saving and/or investing.

How the heck do I go about doing that? I've Googled it a fair amount, but the advice varies wildly.

EDIT: I feel like I've posted about this before, but obviously I did a poor job following up on it. Can anyone recommend any companies that are good for this sort of thing? WellsFargo? ING? The Bank of Awesome?