Potty Training....What do I do

One of the things I learned fast as a first time mom was to trust my instinct. It has served me well and kept my stress levels somewhat low. Well there comes a time in life when you run into a wall or stumbling block. Basically something that challenges the world as you understand it. My latest wall has been potty training. What the heck am I supposed to do to get this kid that absolutely loves running around in his stinky diaper to realize and learn that he must now go to a potty. Oh and when I say loves to run around in his stinky diaper I mean just that. My son for whatever reason hates diaper changes. We have to fight with him and chase him down to change his diaper. So this potty training thing. Where do you start? When do you start? How do you start? I had absolutely no clue. I asked around and read a few items here and there. Every one is doing and saying something different. It's like each person has her own scientific experiment going as to how to potty train. Shall I share some of the advice I've gotten....

1. Take off his diaper and let him run around naked. He'll go to the potty because he won't just use it anywhere. 

WRONG. I was told similar advise for house training the dog that they won't go in their crate. WRONG AGAIN. It must be me because with the dog and with the cub they both did exactly what I was told they wouldn't.

 2. Get him a potty and familiarize him with it, let him play with it and understand that it is specifically for him.

Sounds OK right. Well in my case the potty turned into the cub's lounge chair. I kid you not. He took the potty and dragged it into the living room and plopped it in front of the TV. End result-we had to get him to understand that the potty is not that kind of chair.

3. Take him to the potty whenever you go. He will learn from you.

This I felt I can do so every time I went to the potty I would say "Tony, mommy is going to use the pot pot. Do you want to come and use your pot pot too?" Of course he did and I would sit him on his potty then I would proceed to the grown up potty. End result-the cub now tries to wipe mommy and wants to assist ME in pottying.  

Now none of these are weird or bad advice....well maybe the naked thing. That one was weird. Other than that though I think my experiences have just been comical. We have only been "officially" potty training for a little while now and have had some success.
1. The cub no longer thinks the pot pot is a lounge chair and actually attempts to potty.2. The cub has used his pot pot several times now. Not on his own of course. We have been managing to catch him when he actually had to go.

I'm begining to see that this is a definitely a process. I expected it to take time but truly other than that I didn't know what to expect. I still don't honestly. Oh how I wish my instinct would kick in and I come up with some miraculous solution.