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If you're new to Windows Mobile then I highly recommend you don't flash anything you find here. As the other poster suggested, take a good amount of time to just use your device as-is, mess around with various software (most is shareware--you don't pay for it unless you use it), watch how various poorly-written programs (there are a lot of them out there) can really screw up your device, get used to hard resetting, etc.
I think this forum paints an inaccurate picture of what owning one of these devices is like. Most of us here have had a 6700 for a year or more, and we are tinkerers or developers trying to eek every last feature and bit of performance out of our devices. That may or may not sound good to you. But even if it does, don't rush into it! It will just cause you more grief, unless you're willing to have your new 6700 out of commission a large part of the time.
In my humble opinion, you can gauge it this way--don't upgrade to a custom ROM until you discover for yourself why you'd want to (it was the same advice I got when shopping for my first guitar). In other words, use the ROM that came on your device and find the bugs and problems first. You may find that the stock ROM is perfectly fine for your use (The community here represents a tiny fraction of all the 6700s out there--the vast majority of people using 6700s are using the stock ROM). But maybe you'll see some things that don't work properly or efficiently. If so, then maybe a custom ROM here can help you, but this process is still in its infancy for the 6700 so there are plenty of bugs in these custom ROMs. No holy grail here--yet.
But to answer your question, you don't need any of the stuff over at xda-developers. All the stuff for the Apache can be found here. Just take your time and learn what you do and don't like about the 6700 and maybe by then you'll be better able to understand the stuff you're reading about here (and maybe we'll have more of the bugs fixed).
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