is to build an NT 4.0 Server with Visual Studio 6.0, Office 2000, etc on it. Apparently I installed the service pack 6 and IE 6.0 SP1 and Office 2000 and VS 6.0 won't install over that. Grrr, I've forgotten how bad NT can be, there is a certain order to install things or else it horks things up.

I need these tools on the server because my home networking is all fouled up with Network Timeouts and "The Network Is Busy" errors. I can take a machine to a different network like say at my father's house and it works fine, just not on my home network. I think either the DSL Router, the Ethernet HUB, or the CAT5 cables are bad in some way that allows TCP/IP to work, but not any of the Microsoft networking like File and print sharing, Frontpage access, etc.

I didn't see any of the others as ASP scripts either, now I am begining to see why. :) My PHP skills are still at beginner level.

I had an idea to use the same Web Store database to do a POS system that way someone could take orders over the phone or in a store as well as the web store to sell items. It could be web based so that all they need is a machine with a web browser like IE or Mozilla, and then they can browse to the server app and run it without installing any extra software. That way they use a Microsoft server for ASP, and then any OS with a browser that can work with the web software for the POS system. Like OS/2 and Mozilla, etc. :)

and the need to shuffle items between them. An item will have a stock type of In-Store and Warehouse or Webstore or whatever. When one stock is low, you can shuffle items from one type to the other.

I even had an idea of using dynamic web forms for the web store, so the captions and text is stored in a table indexed by language so a Spanish speaker will see the forms in Spanish, etc. If no language preference, default to English. All captions will be loaded from variables that are populated in the code as English, and if the user has a language set, it is loaded from the table.