Well tell you what, i'll try kivio, i've got a printout of my work that i have done with Visio, also is Dia included in SuSE 8.1 by any chance? Christmas is coming and i have an extension with this project so i might be able to do it.
With Access however its totally different, i might create it totally with my Access 2000 and then give it to the hotel. Only 1 person is going to use it anyway, and they don't use the internet yet so what you recommend isn't needed yet.
All this talk of alternatives, i didn't realise about StarOffice, i actually forgot it existed but since you say it has an Access type program and it is cheap...i WILL buy it and lose my MS CD's. The only thing now would be games.
Thanks Void Main.