Starting a new flood wiring project

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Some newbie questions...

I've just moved into a new big house and my first plan is to flood
wire it with appropriate cat5 for networking, AV, and IR.

I have had some outrageous quotes for getting the wiring done
professionally and reading posts here and on HA sites seeing what
others have done I reckon it might be worth trying to do it myself.
I have never done this sort of thing before though so am a little
dubious as to my own skills and how much effort is involved.

My inital plans are by default to run 2 cat5 cables to each room and
probably 4 to each of mine and the wife's office for later use.  I
have a built-in garage downstairs where my NTL cable connection comes
in (and currently houses the main LAN server) and is an ideal place
to locate my node zero and comms cabinet.

Anyone got any ideas as to what extra cabling to install, how to put
the cabling in myself, and any offers of help ;)

Regards,
-Dan