I know this response is long overdue, animal cookie, but a good financial planner will sell you some CD's right now and tell you to keep a lot of your holdings in a money market account. If you can, check the foreclosure info in a decent neighborhood for a deal - best bet for long term money growth is to catch a house right now if you have the credit. Our neighbors just bought the house next door for $75,000 (kids my age). The average price in our cozy suburb is double that on a bad day, and their house will be worth $200,000 in less than 6 years when the market starts to recover.
Now, a financial planner's job is to sell you products and collect a fee. Most of them are risk averse, and who am I to judge - I am ruined at the moment, but that doesn't mean I don't know anything anymore, it just means I made some very risky decisions that I would never recommend to anyone else.
I am going to tell you which stocks to buy right now and hold for 10 years (this is what I do with other people's money because I don't want to develop a bad reputation and I can't stand the guilt of having someone's bankruptcy on my hands):
RIMM (makers of Blackberry)
NOK (Nokia)
I have more, but after studying these stocks as well as the phone market in general for almost a decade, I can comfortably recommend these stocks for the long term. But get them now by signing up for a tdmameritrade account and put at least $1,000 into each one. Continue to buy in $500 intervals whenever you can (maybe every 2 months). Ignore the fluctuations and just keep the stocks.