thank you for the exellent links. I'd seen the book on Amazon earlier, saw how expensive it was and pretty much skipped right over it. I went back and put it on my wishlist though and i'll see if i can get the money for it together. (Not that im *exactly* poor, but $141 is a bit of an investment for me ;D )

Ill follow up on your tutorial and the AUM tutorial, Excessus and let you know if that does the trick for me. I'll also follow up the other links that were posted.