Hi,
I'm going to suggest you try something I usually don't recommend.
Start with tape 3a, then get back to me or do tape 2a, followed by 2b.
But get back to me. Either by email or on the forum.
One of the ways to get over the problem of getting started... don't start at the beginning start somewhere else.
Knowing that you started in the course on tape 3 lets you off the hook if you don't get it because you don't know yet how the puzzle starts. 
You've taken the all or nothing approach ... so far it's been nothing so... try tape 3 first.
Alex
