Dude, Where's My Muse?

Still having a heck of a time with the trial version of the embroidery software. It might be easier if the help files were better or there were some decent tutorials somewhere. I think part of the problem is the import image part. I have my bitmap file sized nice and small (figured that out on the weekend) but then when I go to use auto-trace, the nice pretty line drawing becomes a horrible mess. This may turn out to be used for only text based designs because I really can't figure out how to get it to work right.