To say it first: I have no experiencce with ASP, but I'm developing a few websites with Zope and a few with PHP at the moment. Zope is very appealing, you are right. But I do not understand your mention above:

But, I'm uncomfortable with loosing touch with an actual HTML/ASP document in an actual file system. I feel weird about the URL that Zope presents - there's no simple file name reference, like, http://www.abc.com/mypage.asp or http://www.abc.com/mypage2.html. Sorry, but my web experience expects that.

In fact, Zope maps objects to URLs, and you access your Zopish objects via URL. So the reference to the object myObj in the root-folder of your Zope-installation gets http://your-server.com/myObj If you like it, you may call your object myObj.asp or myObj.php or even myObj.html. .That's a simple name reference, isn't it? OK, in fact there's more to tell about it, but the strength of aqcusition is one of the more easier concept, and I won't go into detail about that now. We had this thread Zope vs PHP and Zope vs Midgard-Project and Zope vs ASP already, and I decided to use the best out of all worlds. At the moment I'm trying to learn, which technique is the best for a given problem. Andy