Hello, Tommy,
Welcome to our little zoo, and congrats on your new guitar!!
You will get excellent advice here. First of all, listen to everything Gary Palmer, Guitar Stringer, Freeman Keller, and Bjorn Fjiord tell you. They are our resident luthiers and will give you expert advice.
Opa John's advice is right on, too. There is a lot to be learned at Frets.com - great site.
Glad to assist whenever we can, so don't be shy about asking questions.
welcome and congrats indeed ... once you have the strings off you can clean the fretboard with 0000 (thats four zeros!) grade steel wool, it brings it and the frets up nicely