Is there a sight like retouch pro , but for adobe illustrator instead? Or does anyone know of a place I can get free illustrator tutorials? I need to learn the program

I haven't found anything quite like RetouchPro in an Illustrator community (tis a shame) but I have a list of some (tutorial mostly) sites I like to haunt...
http://www.sketchpad.net/illustrator.htm
Graphics.Com (http://www.graphics.com/index.htm)
Pixel2Life (http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/adobe_illustrator/)
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/illustratortutorials/
n.design (http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/)
aituts (http://www.adobeillustratortutorials.com/)
Tutorialized.com (http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Illustrator/1)
...to get you started. Have fun!

I don't use Illustrator much, but if you post your question in one of Adobe Illustrator Forums at the link below, I would think you would get a lot of useful replies.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bbf2755
Regards, Murray

Perhaps this might be of interest to you

http://www.illustratortechniques.com/

I really should stop lurking here :-) and participate more

sibylle

Unfortunately Sib, you have to subscribe (not free) to access the content on that site.