Guy and Thomas, thanks for both of your input on this matetr. You helped me get my ahead around some of the questions I haven't been able to answer. I've decided to post here the route I am planning to take so that others may comment on the merit of it and future hunters of the same info may find this thread interesting. I suppose that is what UT is for.

I went ahead and ordered a book on WebClasses that deals with minor ASP and heavy on the VB ebClasses for IIS apps. The raeson I have started at this point is to go full fulls erver side apps and then see what is lacking, unavialable, not-possible, etc. From here I plan to move more heavily into ASP and DHTML as they seem to provide more functionaility at the expense of moving the app somewhat to the client. I thought about starting on VB.NET but decided that I may be better to start with what was out there already and really try and learn some fundamentals. Much like Windows is far easier with a great DOD knowledge I see ASP as easie if HTML is already learned.

So whether or not this is sound strategy it is what I am pursuing while Microsoft irons out VB.NET. Thanks guys for your input. I originally only came to UT to get answers to this question but have found a lot of pride in bein able to help others out with my hardware/software,network background and some programming questions if they're not too hard!). Cheers.