Unfortunate newbie questions!

[Alessandro Bottoni]

>     -   What book or doc would you recommend for a thorough
>        thrashing of object oriented programming (from a Python
>        perspective) for someone who is weak in OO? In other
>        words, how can someone learn to think in an OO sense,
>        rather than the old linear code sense? Hopefully, heavy
>        on problems and solutions!

If OOP is the problem, you could try this:
Object Oriented Analysys
Peter Coad, Edward Yourdon
Prentice Hall
Old by quite informative

As an alternative, have a look at the following ones.

Thinking in Python:
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython

Dive into Python:
http://diveintopython.org/

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist:
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/

>      -  In college, I came to admire the Schaum's Outline book
>        approach--again heavy on problems and solutions! What's
>        the closest Python equivalent?

Maybe this:

Python Cookbook
Alex Martelli, David Ascher
O'Reilly

HTH
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Alessandro Bottoni