I had to reference an older blog entry of mine today.  This symptom manifested in the form of [i think] an authenticating proxy rather than a two-machine hop.

Read this (doh!): http://sharemypoint.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/_files-folder-part-1-whats-special-about-it/

Key take-away: Beware of folder names with a “_files” suffix in it; apparently its reserved.

I’ve gone through the basic tutorial from “The Gu” and done a little playing around with a few samples from MSDN Magazine.  I snagged another example off MS’s samples site, and after spending an hour or so commenting out and tweaking broken Xaml to get it to run, I realized….uh..time to read up on this subject.

So, I bought this book.  I think my interests are heavier around the deep support for animation and such, but I’d have to get waaaaay stronger in fundamental math concepts; something I’ve been kinda wanting to do anyhow (ex: Trig).  I believe this is where Silverlight (or the “F” word) can add value that is otherwise very tricky to pull off in the web.

We’ll see….