I'm starting to feel pretty constricted by SharePoint.  There's a lot of little things that I'd like to customize that you just can't with SharePoint right out of the box.  For instance, I've gotten requests to make attachments open in a new window when you click on them.  In fact, most of my limitations seem to come from the inherent inflexibility of the out of the box web parts.  Yes, you can change some of the attributes.  However, in order to customize the display of the data, you need to convert the views from web parts to data views.  Of course, in a data view, you can't edit the data.  It's all very frustrating...I wish you could edit the default web parts...If you know a way, please let me know.

I'd like to be able to automatically create alerts for the people who actually submit an item to issue lists, rather than only send out an email only to the person the problem is assigned to.

Also, there aren't any books on using only SharePoint, at least none I could find.  The documentation is pretty sparse.  It seems like the primary method for learning SharePoint remains seminars like those put on by SharePoint Experts.  They are good classes, don't get me wrong, but they are few and far between.  Not only that, but the price for a book would be around $50 - $70, while classes are around $2000 w/o room and board.  You do the math...

It looks like in order to get SharePoint to do what we want it to do, we're going to have to write custom web parts and web pages.  That isn't too big of a problem, as that the SDK does in deed seem to have a lot of information in it.  I'm just ignorant of how to code specifically for SharePoint, and I have a pretty high learning curve to overcome to learn it.  Dustin, when's the next coding class?!

Enough ranting for me.  If you have any ideas how to correct or work around my problems, let me know, please! ;)