I wanted to let you all know that progress has not stopped, it has just changed direction! If you want, you can follow the new progress at my tessa development site: http://tessa.gibixonline.com. It will have limited AJAX capabilities (I don't want to go overboard, like a few guys out there online) and will feature plugin capabilities for the blog and user management - and it really does work! That means that you *don't* have to have SQL 2005 to run my blog (well, you will until there is another plugin developed for it...) - also the user management won't be tied to the local machine/domain! Since I don't have comments working over there yet, feel free to let me know what you think by sending me an email.