over my head
Oh, I see: InfoPath is based on Xdocs, or is it Xpath? Either way, it's important to understand that this is a programming environment and not a little frontpage or winforms type wysiwyg tool.
I'm working on copying a piece of text from one place to another. If I get lucky and that works out, I'll update the underlying xml. Meantime lots of postings to newsgroups and going through tutorials just in hopes that the right information will leak into my brain. It's a little discouraging that none of the InfoPath samples contain a "Save Changes" button on the form, it's all "Send Email about These Changes" or some such nonsense. Even worse, many forms have a print-and-sign premise which just flies in the face of why we're all here. I'm suspecting I'm asking for the moon.