All that hard work paid off. I'm short on sleep, but otherwise I was able to get the following going:

1) Created a standalone C# program with all the features I need except saving number lists. I was stuck for a long time on how to show and hide different forms. My solution was to make the child forms part of a class, the same class that contains the code. That way, all I had to do is pass the object around and it automatically had access to manipulating the form. Only drawback is in editing - you give up the form designer. I did the design in a separate project and copied it over as code within the class.

2) Published a demo web service to brinkster. Hellw World worked, as created in notepad, but VS.NET doesn't work with brinkster, it requres singleform implementation. So follow the steps on MSDN for this (made no sense), then open notepad and use trial and error (worked great). Here is the service:

http://www28.brinkster.com/egrigg9000/MySenators/Main.asmx

Next step: turn the standalone project (in 1) into a web service. Add list save functionality. Then try it out on a PDA.

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