Thanks for the suggestion berrypie, I have been slowly working my way through the japanese characters thread, there are quite a few post in there now, heh. I'll definitely start posting in there once I get to the current post.
I may bite the bullet and install Anki and create a decent revision library. So far I have been using pre-compiled solutions and marking characters for revision as I go and while it is easy to setup, I guess I would not be as effective as something I have compiled myself.
I really need to look at finding a japanese person to correspond with as well. I may start looking in to that next week.
Thanks for the assistance.