Help! e-commerce

Help,

I am a print designer who has been building websites for several years. Mostly
site based around the theme of an online brochure. These sites contain little
more than information and a form and some flash. I have built an e-commerce
site using 2checkout.com's interface and manipulated the form tags to get the
desired results. Here is the problem. I have accepted a job < no more freelance
design > to build several e-commerce websites for a small company (online print
and apparel company). One site is going to contain a least 5000 items with each
item containing several different variables. This is a lot of data to
manipulate and I am hoping there is some e-commerce program that can eliminate
a lot of the basic repetitiveness that I can image one would have to do. I have
been researching the issue but there are so many people building software that
it is easy to get confused. The server we are using is PHP MySQL compatible
<Yahoo's Professional Merchant Accounts, their e-commerce panel is akin to
Mickey Mouse>. I am not afraid to dive into code and price is really not a
consideration.

Here are my choices:

A. Quit my job and make my wife go back to full time work.
B. Quit my job and find another one.
C. Take a sledge hammer to all of my Mac's.
D. Work 24/7 for the next 6 months and learn to write code efficiently.
E. Leave my wife, pack up my truck, take my dog and head to mountains and
spend the rest of my life climbing rocks and paddling rivers!

~b

Actually, in my previous post on this issue, I did mean to suggest D not E.
You might want to try this extension

http://www.interaktonline.com/products/MXKart/

--
Jules
http://www.charon.co.uk/charoncart
Charon Cart 3
Shopping Cart Extension for Dreamweaver MX/MX 2004

I do not want to sound ignorant or bash you in any way, but I learned the hard
way and I would suggest that you not accept a job that you can not handle. I
was doing freelance for a while and then thought I could ahndle this one really
big project on top of doing other smaller freelance jopbs, going to school and
working another fulltime job. Well, thinkgs didnt workout and I did not get
paid for the big project because I could not meet the deadline. Just a word of
advice, dont get yourself caught in a jam. Sounds like you have a good head and
nice life. Live by your heart not your wallett. If you lve your wife and job
then do what you need to be happy. If your wife is no concern then do as much
work as you can handle and do not care if you have time for them.