Thank you for all the helpful answers! I'm going to try out character creation tonight based off this thread here. It looks much easier than the book makes it out to be.
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=4247
Hopefully later this week if my friend is up for it, we'll try a quick session, and I'll post the after action report if anyone would like to see it. I'm envisioning maybe having a couple of PC's doing a 'sweep' of a trailer park looking for salvage.