<<I have a shaman so I can't use my club. I tried to equip it with no
success.>>

left click on your club and drag it to the large square area on your
inventory screen, this is the auto equip. if it pops back into your
inventory instead of going into your primary weapon slot, then either
you've got something already there or you're having technical
difficulties. i played a vah-shir shaman for quite some time.

<<I have no money. No one wants to buy mushrooms (must be a
drug free town). I think that I need to somehow come up with some
money so that I can buy a scroll with a spell that can do damage. I
don't seem to be able to kill anything bare handed. I just keep
getting killed. Does anybody have any suggestions?>>

the are you should be in to kill things should be over the bridge. make
sure to take the bridge on the side of the city that had registrar
bindarah on it. keep going and you'll eventually zone and come out in an
area that has lots of vah-shir under tents. fight the creatures in this
area if you haven't been already, they are the easiest. after they're
dead right click on their corpses and loot all the goodies off of them
when they have them. these are the things you sell for cash.

<<I could delete the character, start over, maybe sell one or both of
my spell scrolls and buy an attack spell scroll. But do I really
need to? Is there still hope for my character?>>

number one, you can't sell scrolls once they've been scribed into your
spell book. they're yours for life. back in the room where you met your
shaman guild trainer, right click him and put training points in 1hand
blunt. just outside of this room there is another room with people
called scribes, they sell your spells. right click them to see what
they've got to sell an then right click and hold on each spell to see
the info on them. each spell will tell you what level you have to be to
use it. keep looking through the scribes until you find the one selling
your level 1 spells.

hope this helps. if you were on the ayonae ro server i could meet and
help you out personally.

Saaxton