Thanks for all the compliments, guys! I've definitely got the shutter bug, I have to "see" somethign to figure it out.
Its kinda scary, but I have started work on a "complete" construction how-to, figuring it will help with all of the first-time-builder questions. Its mainly a compilation of all of the info from the web, this site and others.
It is far from complete, I just started last week and now that its getting warmer out this may go on the back burner, but I wanted to share this and ping others for ideas... like I said it is a work in progress, but whatcha think?
http://pookieweb.dyndns.org:61129/construction.htm