Fondue You Fondue Me

Does anyone else have random wedding gifts that they have never used.  We have an awesome fondue maker that we actually registered for after having fondue with some friends one night.  We got the fondue maker and alas it has sat in its box for like two years. We figured that it was finally time to bring it out and use it.  The last time we had fondue we remember that the cheese was not very good but everything else turned out great.  We checked out Cost Plus World Market to see if they had any goodies to use for Fondue and they sold all different kinds of chocolate shavings to use for chocolate fondue but the only cheese they sold was a boxed, dry, packaged cheese from switzerland that you had to soak the baggie in water before opening it up and pouring the packaged cheese into the fondue maker, this scared us a bit, let alone the amount of preservatives that must be in that cheese. So basically what Im saying here is if anyone has any advice on where to get great cheese/chocolate for fondue or any awesome fondue recipes we could really use them. Im going to try to see what I can find in Mpls tomorrow when I go and hopefully I can find something good there but I know certain kinds of cheese work better than others so any advice on what anyone has tried and what hasn't or has worked would be great!