The Wild, Wooly World of Supplements

I recently began a supplement regimen after going cold turkey for the period of four months and I already want more. I purchased something called an "anabolic matrix kit" from GNC. The kit includes various supplements purported to support intense training. Notably, creatine is included. I have resisted taking creatine for some time. Why? Mostly, because I am contrary and stubborn. Also, I have heard some claim that one can achieve the same results produced by creatine from increased water intake alone.
However, I finally did break down and get some creatine into my regimen. When I was in Iraq, I would buy Bodyonics Pinnacle NoX2 Muscle Builder along with Bodyonics Pinnacle NoX2 Xtender Overnight. I grew huge veins in my arms and large muscles all over. People, including my mother, would regularly inquire if I was taking steroids. I was not, and will not. I eschew any kind of hormone supplements, which is why I probably won't take DHEA ever. Anything else is game however.
I regularly take all sorts of amino acids:

• I strongly believe in the use of glutamine. I first took this stuff three years ago before I joined the Army and couldn't believe how fast my body recovered. It was my first experience with supplements and I was astounded by how much I could lift and never feel soreness.
• I took carnitine in Iraq because it is said to aid in burning fat. It seemed to work well enough, but after a while I was taking so many different things I couldn't be sure.
• Because I failed to read the label of the NO2 products I was already taking I also took additional arginine and ornithine. These are the primary ingredients of any NO2 product so taking extra might have been overkill. But then, with everything else I was taking who knows?
• While in Korea I started developing knee pain from all the extra running I was doing so I began taking glucosamine and chondritin sulfate. I know this stuff works because over time the knee pain dissipated without any decrease in my workout load. Everybody should be on this stuff.
  
• As part of the kit I am using now, I take a GNC product called "Amino Burst 3000" - One stop shopping for the discerning/lazy supplement consumer.
  

In addition, I usually take some sort of multivitamin. I also usually eat enough to feed a small Mexican town for a year. I am too cheap to buy protein or meal replacements, although for a while in Iraq I was so hungry that I ate hundreds of protein bars and many cans of tuna. A college friend had told me how his body building younger brother would eat tuna for the protein content. I ate it because I was positive I was on the verge of starving. Tuna has the side benefit of providing Omega-3 fatty acids - good stuff I assure you.
A new supplement I am intrigued by is Endothil-CR. It's made from tomato extract and was originally researched as a way to fight muscle atrophy. Of course, bodybuilders began putting it to other use. I hesitate to use it because:

1. I am broke.
2. It sounds like a pro-hormone or some sort of hormone booster.
3. Did I mention that I'm broke?

The root of the problem is that the supplement market is unregulated and full of bogus claims and products of dubious worth. The majority of available research comes from the manufacturer selling the product and shouldn't be trusted for obvious reasons. There are a few things universally understood to work but the science for even known supplements isn't as strong as I'd like. So where does that leave the average supplement consumer - "where can I get some steroids?"
So the long and short of it is that I am a supplement junkie. In a small way, I live so that I can work out. I work out so I can look like and perform like a superhero. I want to be Batman in an Army green.