Going crazy with WSGI

I am a newbie to Django and web development in general, and I've
completed the django tutorial and am working my way through the
practical django projects book. I have a simple app that I wanted to
try out: basically a form in HTML that takes inputs, reads a database,
calculates and displays an output. I just want to 'get' it, for now.
The goal is to dive in and try to execute a very basic app myself.

I'm running everything on windows: Apache 2.2, Django 1.3, Python 2.7
and Postgres 0.9. The django website recommends I go with mod_wsgi. I
installed it in my Apache folder. My django folder is c:/djangostuff.
All the projects/apps I've gone through so far are from this
directory. I made some changes to my httpd.conf file and created a
file called myapp.wsgi in c:/djangostuff, and also in apache2.2/htdocs

From my browser, localhost/myapp.wsgi returns "Hello World!", from
which I gather it's working, whatever it is. But localhost is pointed
at apache2.2/htdocs in the document root setting of my httpd.conf
file. When I try http://127.0.0.1:8000/myapp.wsgi, I get a Page not
found 404 error.

I have gone through the django project website here:
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/django_apache_and_mod_wsgi and the
wsgi instructions for django here: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango.
I've read up on as many articles on wsgi as I can, and the more I
read, the more it confuses me. My questions:

1. I gather WSGI is an interface that is required to pass data between
django/python and Apache, but the hell is it, really?
2. What is a .wsgi file, and in which directory does it go in? Once it
goes in that directory, how does it work?
3. Once I've created a form in Django, how do I use wsgi to pass data
to the application, and back?
4. Why does the instructions at modwsgi mention I store my django.wsgi
under an apache subdirectory? Why is it that my hello world example
works under localhost but not from http://127.0.0.1:8000/myapp.wsgi?

My questions are probably stupid, but I have spent the last three days
reading and I still can't figure out how to proceed. I would
appreciate any explanation that helps me 'get' it. Thanks in advance!

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