About five years ago, I decided to buy some shares of a game developer company. I learned a lot from this: Primarily how to burn my money effectively. :)
There may be som "problems":http://futurezone.orf.at/business/stories/83831/ for JoWood.
btw, I can't see the label for your "Remember personal info?" radioboxes (FF 1.5, WinXP)
I bought stock in apple about 3 years ago and it was the best decision I ever made. I just wish I could have gotten more. I bought a 100 shares and they split a while back. I just wish I could have bought google shares a while back.