How to go about reading/watching Fullmetal Alchemist

For the past week, I've been watching episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist off of Netflix, and I have to say, it's a really good series. I've watched up to episode 25, halfway through the 51 episodes in the series. But then I made the mistake of looking up on Wikipedia what the TV show was in relation to the original manga, and now I have no idea what to do:

• The anime Fullmetal Alchemist is fairly faithful to the original manga, but the plot is changed and it ends early: "The anime's later story and conclusion by Bones [the animation studio] is different from the manga due to a request by Arakawa [the author of the manga]." All that I've seen so far is pretty much the same as the manga, which just made me very indecisive.
  
• There's another anime, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood that follows the original manga completely. It has 63 episodes, but it seems that only 26 of them have been dubbed, and I have no idea when they'll all dubbed. I'll also have to buy or steal them.
  
• And there's the original manga. 23 of the 26 volumes have been translated, and they'd probably all be translated by the time that I read that far. I skimmed through the books and I've only gotten through three and a half of them after watching 25 episodes.
  

If you're wondering exactly where I am in the series, here's a very minor spoiler.

 minor spoiler

The brothers are on their way to an Ishbalan camp to ask about the philosophers' stone. Mechanical legs girls is up next. Still lost?

 major spoiler

Hughes was just killed by the homunculi.

So what should I watch or read? I'm thinking that I'll watch the rest of Fullmetal Alchemist, then worry about watching or reading the whole story. To anyone that has seen more than I have: is this a good idea?