Yeah, yeah, its too easy to pick on the newbie ...

Don't worry GatorJH, I can take it. I do understand the point too - AA doesn't need help a lot of the time to win - but I think my question about how to play it unimproved was still valid despite the unfortunate choice of words. Thanks all for your replies (the helpful ones anyway).

While I'm on a roll (!), here's another from about 45 mins ago:

PokerStars Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02)
UTG ($0.98 in chips)
UTG+1 ($1.82 in chips)
MP ($1.89 in chips)
Hero ($5.15 in chips)
Button ($4.98 in chips)
SB ($5.60 in chips)
BB ($5.08 in chips)

*** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Hero [Qh Qc]
UTG: folds
UTG+1: calls $0.02
MP: folds
Hero: raises $0.08 to $0.10
Button: calls $0.10
SB: calls $0.09
BB: folds
UTG+1: folds

*** FLOP *** [6c 3c 2h]
SB: bets $0.02
Hero: raises $0.18 to $0.20
Button: folds
SB: calls $0.18

*** TURN *** [6c 3c 2h] [5d]
SB: bets $0.06
Hero: raises $0.60 to $0.66
SB: calls $0.60

*** RIVER *** [6c 3c 2h 5d] [Tc]
SB: checks
Hero: checks

*** SHOW DOWN ***
SB: shows [3h 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
Hero: mucks hand
SB collected $1.96 from pot

Obviously there's a potential straight on the flop, but I thought it unlikely that anyone would have called my pre-flop raise OOP with 45 (or is that giving people too much credit??). Anyway, when the guy bet then called my raise post-flop I thought likely TPTK / TPGK, or maybe straight draw with A4 or K5 or something like that.

Turn was a scary card. Obviously if I was right about the straight draw above I was in trouble. But I thought he's only bet 6c into a pot of 70c or so, maybe he doesn't have the straight, and I didn't want to lay it down with pot odds of about 12:1. But there were still some very scary cards out there, so I thought I'd take one more decent shot at taking it right there. Mistake? Should I have called or folded here?

When he called that, I thought OK, I'm gone, and shut down.

This guy is a calling station, which might be why I didn't credit him with a great hand. In hindsight I guess the fact he was betting into me on the flop and the turn, even such small bets, should've been a big red flag.

Sorry if these are very obvious - but if I'm not sure I'm gonna ask.

Man, you know the problem with doing this? You out yourself as a fish - I'm gonna have every half-decent micro NL player on this board heading on down to PS to see if they can find me soon!