>Yes, it was: I just wanted to get your attention, since you're the local VM >guru... :-)

Please.... < s >

>>>I think I get the general idea, but there's one thing I'm still confused
>>>about. What goes in the data layer? Are those the actual tables, individual
>>>classes that access the tables, one class that accesses all the tables, or >>>isthis purely a style question?

Typically the UI is the first tier. The middle tier can be made up of several components - those that separate the UI from the Business logic - and those that separate the business logic from the data. The third-tier are the components that do the actual reading/writing to the database.