If you haven't done so, buy Small Stakes Hold'em. Read it, internalize it, use it, live it. Things will change.
One thing to try right away is on the flop, treat every decision as raise fold and if there's a good pot odds reason to play your hand, raise. Obviously, this isn't correct all the time, but doing this will put you on the right track towards winning postflop play and teach the proper mindset. Many people understand the basics of preflop play and play tight and raise at the right time, but then play too passively postflop. Try it for a session. SSHE goes into this in much more detail.
One more thing - fold less on the river, especially when the pot > 8 BB. It is usually a mistake to fold the river for one bet in limit.
Remember this old adage - "The time for big laydowns is preflop. The time for loose calls is on the river." Weak players usually do the opposite. Sounds like you're OK with the preflop part, but start seeing monsters under the bed after that.
Again, I can't recommend SSHE enough. 3 years ago, Ed Miller was a programmer in Redmond trying to figure out how to stop being a losing player on the weekends at the 4/8 tables at Muckleshoot. Now he co-authors books with Sklansky and Sklansky sought him out because of his success at the loose low limit games newcomers play. You don't need to reinvent the wheel.
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