What are good things like textbooks to learn mandarin with? I Have rosetta stone, pimsleur 1, 2, 3, and reading and writing chinese which shows 2000 characters, traditional and simplified. In two years i will be moving to Beijing and i need to learn chinese. So what are some good Materials.?

I don't really know any software you can use, but I speak Mandarin. If you want I could teach you some??

I tried Rosetta Stone for Spanish. It was effective to learn basic words and sentences. It does not have any grammar or conjugation instructions though so it will be very hard to go beyond the basics with it.

My college uses another software called TeLL me More, by Auralog. I found it more complete and less repetitive. It covers not only the basics, but also intermediate or advanced level. My goal was to become fluent so it was perfect for me. It has a lot of different activities: picture/word association, videos, dialogues,..., includes also grammar and conjugation. It has also more content than Rosetta Stone as far as level and number of hours of learning and is cheaper. Their speech recognition is great so you can have a dialogue with the computer. You can check out their website at http://www.auralog.com for a free demo and compare too.
I did not personally try their Chinese program but really liked their Spanish one

The best way to learn a language would be through immersion, visiting these countries. Learning a language will require some time. In addition to software, you can have books which are useful as well. Audio CDs like Pimsleur for instance might help you out but you cannot get any feedback on your pronunciation so I did not like it so much.

http://www.chinesepod.com is an online mandarin course for English speakers.

I suggest going to school. Try to find a Confucius Institute in your area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute#United_States
http://english.hanban.edu.cn/

Software used by several Conficius Institutes:
http://www.monkeykingsoft.com/