Finally rescued the files from my old hard drive and found this in my links. I thought that some of you might find it useful.
Hair Tut

One more

not at home to share a link or two I have but these are decent quality tutorials and reinforce the same things I've seen elsewhere - the wolf one does bring more to light the use of more colors to have a more natural fur - so great links; thanks for providing them

Don't forget our very own Poop's tutorial: Link

you should try the painter fur brush( version 7 onwards ). you can get nice reults very quickly