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Gotta go with Raymo on this one. Walk before running! Don't worry about guiding yet - when you're starting out it adds vastly more complications than it solves. Vastly more. Take it from someone who's still learning the hard way about guiding - it's a pain.
Put your DSLR and 100mm (or whatever) lens on the HEQ5. Learn to drift align. Once aligned, take as many subs of 1-2 mins as you like - do an hour's worth. Take a similar number of darks immediately afterwards. Stack the results in Deep Sky Stacker, edit the resultant TIF in Photoshop or the software of your choice. Bang! There's your first image.
A non-guided go-to mount with DSLR and medium to long focal length lens is the absolute first step into imaging. Anything more is simply asking for trouble. You HAVE to drift align first, and that takes a while to really get good at. Guiding, for me at least, only made things far more difficult when I added it!
Where exactly are you having issues? This forum is a wealth of knowledge and is full of people willing to help you with any specific issues. Chances are good that many if not most people here have been through whatever it is that's hampering you.
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