@ SpencerSteel
Nice to hear that and you will love the sound of the Virus.
You will get tutorials with your Virus installation CD or by downloading all the stuff on the ACCESS website.
Get a look on youtube too there are some good vid but not many in tutorials for soundsettings. Maybe a book like this (title):
Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming: The Ultimate Reference for Sound Design
As you already worked with softsynth maybe you don't need this book.
The official Forum on the ACCESS page is OFFICIAL! So you will find answers on both forums. It's simply that on the Access page they are posting official satements and Marc and the other moderators from Access are more active there. And sometimes they are also posting here.
Trial and error is a sort of thing you need when starting with the hardware synth. With the time you will know how the Virus is working and it will become easier to create the sound of you imagination.
The preset aren't bad you know and there are 7000 and more waiting for you. Do you really need more?
Hope this helped.
Cheers