I take care of #1 in the contract, which spells out when I get paid. That bumps #2 into first place.

>First questions <g>:
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>1) Can I expect to be paid in 30 days?
>2) Do you have any days when people bring in food for some type of event (birthdays, etc.). When? Can we schedule meetings on those days?
>3) Does your IT manager actually have any IT experience?
>4) Can we just leave IT out of it completely?
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>Then we can get to questions about what they want the program to do. <g>