Thank you everybody for your responses.
Jeff, your explainations certainly make sense
Tom, i would be interested in taking a look at the subpart of your merchant package... it sounds interesting and may be something i could model my events/registration package after (I want ot make it customizeable enough that you could easily accept job postings through it as well as signing up for events like a conference - by using dynamically generated information-collection pages - that can be templated)...
Jon, acs-person and acs-address sound like what i am looking for. i went into cvs (anonymously) and tried to download acs-person, but it said the package wasn't available. is there some place i can go to look at it before the release of 4.6? am i just using the wrong command?
# cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co acs-person
Should i be checking it out of some other server? How about acs-address?