How to study Japanese?

I'll try to keep this short.

I want to start learning Japanese, but since I don't have Pimsleur money I need a method to hit it.  Right now I have 'A Guide to Writing Kanji And Kana' Book 1 and 2, by Wolfgang Hadamitzky and Mark Spahn, and Living Language's 'Ultimate Japanese' (which is supposedly a VERY shitty book, but it was free and I'm using it for grammar/conjugation only.)  I'm debating making flash cards as well.

So, how should I go about learning it?  I'm sure just reading it won't be enough...

I picked up "The Idiot's Guide To Conversational Japanese" and despite the title, it's actually really good. While it doesn't go over any kanji, it's still very good for grammar.

Also, http://www.japanesepod101.com/index.php is a very good site. Start with the beginner lessons and go from there. Again, as it's a podcast, there isn't really any kanji or even hiragana or katakana, but, IMO, the grammar is more important anyway.

I should admit, that I didn't have to start from scratch, I took three years of Japanese in high school (albeit with a crappy teacher) had a year off, forgot a bunch of stuff, went to Japan, came back. And I'm now currently trying to learn new stuff, but both of those helped refresh some of the things that my teacher taught me, and even introduced some that she didn't but definitely should have.