sv1cec, sorry if it's been beaten to death, I've been trying to follow (and have subscribed to) various threads that talk about AWS and more specifically how it will port to vb3.5, and this is one of a few threads regarding the matter that is updated daily. Since the questions I asked were not answered in the official
3.5.0b AWS release thread (at least not at the time I posted) I used this thread.
It's slightly confusing, but I thought a thread entitled "AWS and vb3.5" was an appropriate place to inquire about "AWS 3.5 related questions". I'll try not to let it happen again. better yet I will go and read through the thread I referenced above. I see it's up to 60+ posts since I went out of town last week, at that time it was only about 10 posts that did not address "upgrading".
Again guys, I can't say it enough, thank you all very kindly for your effort, and sorry about the misplaced questions.