too hard
Yup, it is way too hard to get going with infopath programming. Another brave blogger chimes in with more eloquence.
Instead of beating my head against bad references and namespaces, I thought I'd have a wimpy programming day by doing cosmetic improvements to a sharepoint WSS site via frontpage. That's like a whole nother world of hurt, it turns out. Marginal progress. Almost got completely stymied if not for this kb article which Mike Walsh pointed me to via the newsgroup. Feuf.