ok cake friends....wrap your heads around this one! 
I am doing a spiral cake design similar to this pic for this weekend. (Gee I love how we say "sure! I can do that!" before we really know what the heck we are doing!!)
I've got Rebecca Tanner's pictures and tutorial, but I just can't my brain around this....anyone wanna try to give me some more help?
In Rebecca's pics, the cake tier was 4 layers! Geez! looking at this wedding cake, how tall do you think each tier must be?
panic is setting in..... 
dang
why isn't the picture coming up? I hate this computer stuff.....I give up...I can't get it to attach.....
There are still problems attaching pics in a thread.
Try posting it to your gallery, stating clearly that it's not yours, and remove it once your cake is finished.
HTH
(love your avatar pic!! 
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I can't find the tutorial you are talking about, and I'm not sure exactly what part you are having trouble with, but here's a tutorial I really like:
http://cakeoricandothat.blogspot.com/2009/09/little-big-planet-cake-completed.html
This cake made so much more sense to me once I saw the triangle pattern she used around the cake to cut the spiral. Hopefully this helps a little.
I think I would do a spiral cake differently. And not by adding to the cake, but carving to remove the spiral. I can't explain this atm as I'm posting on an iPhone but basically graduated sizes of stacked tiers, carving out a half spiral ramp from each tier and lining the ramps up when assembling completely.
It's hard to explain without a sketch... but then I always do my 3d cakes by first planning on paper with several drawings!!
Have you seen this tutorial?
http://cakecentral.com/articles/662/how-to-carve-a-spiral-cake
The spiral shape becomes apparent once you begin the carving. I couldn't wrap my head around the carving, but once you begin, it really works.
HTH
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