Basically I’ve been looking for tutorials on animating fluids and have not been able to find any aside from the particle flow one that comes with 3ds max. Could someone refer me to a good one?
Ideally, I’m going to have a seaside scene with waves and a scene with a lake (which will have several objects impact the water). any advice on this would be good.
I did look at the links for the lost page and I didn’t see any there.
You just gotta do a little bit of googling its pretty easy! 
I’d recommend that you use a displace modifier on a pretty high density plane and use a noise map for the displace modifier. Then animate the phase on the noise map. you can then use this tutorial to add a little more detail to the watter surface. http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/3dsmax_water_surface/water_surface_01.php