So now I am certified!
I am now a certified Scrum Master having completed a course with Mike Cohn in London. I have read about Scrum a good deal in the past, and it turns out I had not been that wrong in the way I had tried to implement it.
So was it a good course, I certainly think so, Mike leads the class well. As with most project management (and IT I suppose) the course shows you that communication is the key, you can get so much information from the discussions the class has as opposed to a more traditional 'taught class' approach. But this is at the core of Scrum where the team should be a team of equal not a manager and staff.
So if you have not already read up on Scrum please have a look, I am sure you will find it interesting.