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BBDGus,
It's all myth. There are those that can play better. Some of us don't play as well because we don't get to practice as much, or maybe tone deaf, or physical limitations, or what have you.
Some people are born with a natural talent towards something while others of us have to work towards it. Good fishermen are good because they get more time to fish, good hunters are good because they get more time to fish. There is of course one more thing involved, Knowledge. The best fishermen, the best hunters, the best guitar players are the best because they not only practice, but they study. They study everything about what it is they are doing. Then they know their limitations and have learned to work around them. Last they all know that somedays, it doesn't matter if you've done everything write, sometimes you just won't get it right.

Don't give up, and don't ever let someone else stop you from playing.
I'll never be good enough to play to a sell out crowd, but it doesn't really matter.
I play for me. I play because I can. I'll never play back up. I'll never have my own band. I don't care. I do it for me. It's my time.

James Brown performance stopped riots

The day the music died

KEG,
If you want to start out with something simple, just tyoe in 3 chords.
If you want a few let me know, I've got some in my songbook.
Don't worry about patterns right now, this is for learning your chords. Create your own pattern. Sometimes just by playing around with it the patterns will come, but if they don't just have fun.

When it comes to computers I'm quite illiterate, so anything that could help is going to be welcomed.

Lets give it a go.

Tim, I  agree with Ken
This is an excellent explanation.

Don't let other people post using your name. It confuses people as to whom they are speaking with. Either advise your friend to get their own name or let everyone know inadvance that someone else is using/will be using your name.

try typing in 3 chord songs, and it will give you in the are of what you're looking for.
I've got several songs in my songbook.

Try either James Taylor or John Denver... if your looking for tabs...or try the Eagles.

You can't fail with the Beatles.

They're all great, just grab a short and easy one.

http://www.911tabs.com/about/tabs.htm

I looked around, maybe this site can explain better than I can

I haven't long to try and answer, but there are others with more expieriance and time to give a better answer, so this might get you started.

You already know the chords, and the strings.
Going from the top of the guitar to the bottom;
E,B,G,D,A,e
However, you'll notice that alot of times when someon posts TABs it will read;
e,A,D,G,B,E
As long as you know the strings it shouldn't matter too much, it does sometimes confuse though. Take it slow.
The 'X' represents a string that isn't played and an'0' represents an open string. The same so far.
Now to read a Tab: The number represents the Fret and the letter represents the string. Ex... 7G... This means that you only play the G string on the 7th Fret. If It shows 5D, Then it means to play only the d string on the 5th Fret. Find the Fret whether it's the 5th, 7th, 14th, or whatever, then look to see what's being played and play what is being shown. If you get a TAB that shows something like...XX0232...that means you don't play the E or B, you'll hold down on the D string second Fret, the A string on the third Fret and the e string on the second Fret. Does this look familiar.
Tabs are a single number, or it could appear as a group of numbers. Then you'll have some songs that will post a chord, but will say to play a single string.

If I've confused you, I'm sorry.
If I rambled a bit then I'll go ahead and appologize for that to.

I can't remember any songs called 'Wings of a dream'.
There was 'Wings That Fly Us Home".
There was also 'On The Wings Of An Eagle'.
How does the song go?

If you want an older song, then try:http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Denver+John/Miscellaneous/Scotsman/44050.html