Another small update:
I recently came across a wonderful Anki Deck, and best part is...it's free!
The Anki deck is Timo's HSK 2012. Unfortunately when I went to go find a link for it, it seems to have been removed from the website. Maybe it was deleted in favor of the even more comprehensive deck Timo's All-in-One Chinese .
Here's a screen shot of a card. There's the Hanzi, character breakdown, native pronunciation, sentence pronunciation, sample sentence, pinyin, picture...pretty much everything any learner would ever need to cram a bunch of characters before getting serious about reading some Chinese (i.e. me).
Edit: Well, I am now mirroring the old Timo's HSK 2012 Anki Deck
Study well!