Contracts

I have a contract with an agent. Yay!
But it's six or seven pages long and I don't really understand it. Is it a good contract, fair, unusual? I don't know.
There is a lot of advice on the web but mainly of the sort saying do not sign with an agent who asks for up front 'fees.' OK. Fair enough but after that?

Here is a great blog about the business of writing with a US slant. It has lots of advice and stories of what to do and what not to do. http://www.annemini.com/