Well after a night of working with a dry erase board and "chair flying" I think I got it down well enough. We went into the FTDs today and put it to the use. Turned out to work pretty well and I started getting it. Best advice i followed was "Correction equals deflection." After that I was able to really get it, and even nailed a cross wind approach.
The flight training school (61) I came from was pretty cruddy. The instructors were good but the equipment was terrible. Airplanes older than me (and some flight instructors!) with a Localizer needle that BARELY worked. Thats all I really had to go wtih to get my instrument training. Mind you, thats the instrument you would use the most, but still.
I feel much more confident with my NDB approaches. Everyone has told me that when an NDB station goes down, they are not fixing them anymore.
[extreme joke]a couple of the aviation students here want to go out to the nearby NBD antenna here and ::snip snip snip:: and never have to do an NDB approach here again![/joke]
Thanks for the help though everyone!