educate me on my new guitar

well ... i ended up buying a 2nd guitar. i've been playing alittle over a month and a half now...learning from this site i've just been addicted. i bought the acoustic about a month ago ... been itchin to play with an electric.

i bought home a shecter c-1 elite today. they told me it was more of a metal guitar ... so i had them put in a SD pearly gate in the bridge position.

here comes my newbism. i've got dials and switches on the thing and i dont fully understand the operations of them. can someone explain to me which position of the switch uses what pickup? what exactly does the "coil tap" do when you pull out the tone switch?

thanks for breakin me in.

here's a pic of the electric i brought home:

Well, usually the switch in the down position is for the pickup nearest the bridge. You can usually tell which is which because the pickup near the fretboard has a deeper more full sound to it while the other one has more of a twang. (Basically the same sound you get when you click the strings with a pick. If you pick closer to the fretboard you get a full sound and if you pick down by the bridge it gets twangy.

One knob's for volume, one's for tone.

As for the coil tap... just type "what is a coil tap on a guitar?" into Google and you'll get a whole bunch of groovy technical explanations.