I've been reading this thread for awhile now, and I would like to say thanks to everyone for the help with the game, I have learned a few things from your strategies, and thank you nosebleed for the niko-maki translations.
I bought all three of the school idol paradise games, although I have only played the bibi version, and I don't know enough Japanese to know what the story mode said, but when you get done with that there is a pv mode on the songs that makes it so that you can just watch the characters, and not have to worry about watching the notes. It's a pretty cool feature I thought.
If anyone has anything else they would like to know about s.i.p. I will try to answer the best I can.