Well thanks for all the input guys. A few of you make mastering seem like some mythical creature. The only things between me finishing my tracks and releasing them or not are the few sounds and tones i can't get just right and cause me to spend so much time working on them that i get tired and annoy...

Does anyone have any recommendations of literature for learning about mastering? Any recommended software/VST's? Any good books with information on compressors and how they work? Thanks in advance.