I present you with the outstanding newb award!!!(not DV's outstanding newb award, but mine at least ). You are the model perfect newb. You don't post whore, you read the site and tutorials, and by doing so you got a LD a couple days later.

Anyway, it sounds like it really was low level LD. My first LD I also got that feeling you are describing, but with more experience you will understand that it was in fact an LD. You will also hopefully have a bit more control and sense of awareness, but that is something one has to work on in order to develop...