Thanks, Hung! Advice noted and very much appreciated.

Corey, I am so sorry to have derailed the thread a little. I've been following it closely, for like you, I am eager to learn how to buy one's first aeroplane, even though in my case, I am awfully premature. Thanks to your questions, and the responses of the members and the links and threads they have provided, I too have been learning alot vicariously and doing all sorts of "dry runs", trying to apply the pointers I read here to ads I read in the classifieds here and in Barnstormers.