Well, since you are a newbie, I wont critize you on your lack of use of the search button...(Which sucks, buuutttttt...)

Most of the things you mentioned can be found on the the tutorial section of this site, but if you need additional help, im always available.

My Xfire and AIM account usernames are both "lordofblake" (Without the quotes of course.)

Blake I wouldn't offer your help to teach people how to make maps. Its very tim consi

Like help out a good internet buddy, or a real buddy buddy,

Its very time consuming, my advice would be to keep the helping randoms to on the forums.

Man I'm so tired cant keep mt eyes

Checkpoints are easy. All you need to do is to (assuming you can script) is make a void or dormant script that has the (game_save) function. Viola! BSP's are not much harder. the command to switch BSP's is (switch_bsp )

For , put the bsp number.