from newbie to newbie, i'd go for the spyder. i once had one too, right when it first came out and it was my first gun. easy to use, maintain, and take apart.
my philosophy is this: if you are starting out, just buy something you can play with for a short time because by the time you spend all that money upgrading it, you realize you could have bought a "higher class" marker if you saved up. so buy that marker to start off with, throw on a barrel, get a new spring kit because they always seem to shoot hot out of the box, and maybe a new bolt, and go kill!!! then....a couple of years later, save up and skip buying anything in the middle class, and buy big, like a timmy, angel, etc. you get my point. good luck sir.