ROM,
First let me congratulate you to have the courage to search for the right path.
Second, just and advice from a person half our age, please, don't search for the religion through the practicing of the people of such religion, but try to find the religion from the origins, weather Religious men who are modern and open for questioning everything, and through books that are checked by the religious authorities.
All muslims world wide belive in one god and Muhammed PBUH as his messanger and prophet, and as the Quran as the words of god, and so you find the main things are one across all countries and diversty of people, but you find alot of differences in the details.
So If you are really looking for the right path, check the root of it, check what came from God, not how people do it. you can have your own interpretation (in the things that god gave us the flexibility) of some practices and have your own way.
Anyway,
For me, if you bleive in that there is one and only god, have no companion, no son, no wife, it is a start. Read the Quran, talk with people of greater knowledge than us and most important, talk to people who converted, they should have been going through all the questions going in your head
Cheers
