by the way, my comment "you don't do this" was not meant as a dig. Being a programmer, you don't do what I do, and that was my perception, though I didn't know you were a programmer when I got that impression from your comment. You
can do anything you want on a Mac as well or better than on a Wintel box. I have to identify a platform that our 1,000 plus business locations in North America can go find whatever it is they need off the shelf without benefit of a competent programmer because we just ain't going to hire competent programmers. That gives me a very different perspective on what it is I'm trying to achieve.
Of course, I'm also one of the last hold outs that thought OS/2 was a good platform (it was IBM VM ported to the Intel hardware and I still insist it kicked butt (g))