I taught myself the alphabet before I started classes so I would be ahead. First I used flashcards to get used to the way they look and which is which. For getting rid of your roman alphabet habits, I suggest practicing with cognates.

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/rus ... habet.html

This website really helped me!

http://www.learningrussian.com/alphabet.htm

This shows handwritten Russian, which looks hard to learn, but gets to be second nature fairly quickly.

~dUcK!