You are correct, information (at least in the classical sense) isn't traveling faster than light with entanglement. The marble analogy is good, but like most analogies, it breaks down at the edges. Quantum entanglement is a little bit more magical than just revealing the discreet state of an object, because it turns out the probabilities we expect don't match the probabilities that we measure when we do certain entanglement experiments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem#Bell_inequalitie...

It seems that measuring a particle does indeed have some kind of effect on the particle that it is entangled with (or, at least, with the universe we are measuring it from) beyond just revealing information about some discreet state.