Just started learning Japanese a few days ago. Really exciting to see so many others interested in Japan and learning their language : )
Personally only just got done learning Hiragana and Katakana as I've literally only just started. I'm learning about 25-50 Kanji a day, is that a good pace? If I keep it up, shouldn't take too long to read the 2,000 commonly used Kanji.
For anyone else looking to learn, I'm finding the book "Japanese For Everyone" good. It's full on, but there's tapes for it as well so you can listen to the questions and extracts. Wont link to it, but the book and tapes are available on the net. The local library seems to have a few Japanese language books too.