>Anyway, I have long suffered, when using Help files, the problem of "getting lost" when I link-to-link-to-link-to... My problem is that it is very infrequently that I end up back where I started all of the cascading clicks. The result is that I SKIP stuff that I should read.

Help is in a browser. Have you tried using ALT+LeftArrow or the Back button to go Back? If that doesn't do it for you, then I agree it's hard to systematically read everything unless you go through the index.