Alright, let's not start more people in playing CS. It just leads to lots of swearing and bad mouthing of others then the slamming of fists and feet into the sides of computers and well it's just not something that we like to see happen. Go play something else. BF1942 is a great game which I own at
(Not to say others suck... I'm just better
).
As far as finding people and games. I recommend using All Seeing Eye. It can be used with most all FPS games on the market right now and works very well.
If there are any gamers in the Chicago area that like LAN parties, check out
www.chicagogamers.com . We also have good pinging servers for BF1942 and UT2k3 Deathball.