http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series/
These look great (apart from the fact that he uses Visual Studio 2008 as his editing environment!). If you prefer video’s to books (or just like a combination) then you would do well to work through these.
also, check out JSTween. http://jstween.blogspot.com/ based on a Tweener port.
That JSTween sounds interesting – it would make moving between ActionScript and JavaScript a little easier…