yes it can be a bit tricky if you're not familiar with the vBulletin template system. I find it OK if you think of it as mainly HTML with a bit of customised tagging.
In your situation, perhaps for now leave out the if conditions just to get it working. Give me a few minutes and I'll paste the code that you'll need to put in here.
ok so do a search for this in your navbar template:
Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a id="usercptools" href="$show[nojs_link]#usercptools" accesskey="3">$vbphrase[quick_links]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("usercptools"); </script></td>
</if>
if you have it - then you will have quick links on your navbar - if not paste it in there.
you may want to leave the if condition in - as it shows only when a user logs in.