Hi, Chance, its tough starting out on a guitar like that.
I teach music in a school, and have private students one day a week down here, and kids with steel string guitars learn 20% faster than kids trying to play nylon string guitars, mainly the wide neck is the problem, as you say...as soon as you get the steel string things will get much easier.
Let me know if you want any info, and good luck with playing on that thing in the meantime.
