Hi I see also that the list rejects the name of a compressed audio file as spam m p 3...
Hmm.. Are you sure? It was my understanding that the rejection was happening from your mail host, not the list server.
I feel that after months of figuring out what I need to do to get my project off the ground I am once again going back to the drawing board.
I know the feeling. The best way to cure that is to just dig in and start making a prototype. You'll learn a lot this way, and can usually eliminate the uncertainty (or at least minimize it). Probably the fastest way to get up and running is to make a folderish Song content type, and then upload your audio and notation files into that folder. Using Archetypes, it's super easy to make these types in no time.
My next question is must I lean zpt or dhtml.
ZPT. Don't even mess with dtml since it's hardly ever used anymore. Here is a good tutorial for learning ZPT: http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/ZPT.stx Nate