Rob7,
One of truely nice things about the SDK is ability to create new tables, and screens and the system does a lot of the work for you. As to changing the default searchs, I will check with my developer. Exact recently extended the number of pages that the SDK addresses. I would like to know as well. Several clients of our have already requested changes to the default searches.
A true VB programmer should be able to adapt to asp better than a Cobol programmer. I would try to get some of it under my belt, along with some HTML, before going to the SDK training.
I owe you awnser on SDK touching default search window, will assume something like the Account Search from a request. Several clients have asked to see the state, at the moment there is the city, and country, but not state.