If anyone else has similar stories it would be nice to hear them.
Well, I've only been using Zope for 6 weeks now, & I've already launched one site based totally on it in my spare time: http://www.noonsite.com , a site for cruising sailors. Early days for it, but I've already got my father & sister inputting all the information via the web in different countries, using versions not to break the live site, etc. I've forgotten how many times zope's blown me away, having spent my first week fighting acquisition & the usual newbie things, I now find I can answer about 50% of questions on this list - a very steep learning curve (ie going from zero to zen quickly!). Now I've just got to get to grips with it at work - I'm currently working on converting a 500,000 row postgresql/php media database over using ZPatterns... Regards, Ivan