Non-Programmer Needs Help!!! (desperately)

Question

Ok, I want to create games for a virtual world website. I also want the website to be a game itself. Right now, I am working on creating a card game for two players (with the option of playing the computer). They each have 2 decks to draw from and a place for 2 cards to be displayed (their "hand") before they place it on the game board. I don't want their opponent to see the cards in their "hand" until they are placed on the game board. When a player has two cards in his hand, I want them to have the capability of enlarging the image of the card to full size in a pop-up type window, so they can calculate their strategy. The game itself is similar to the popular battle card games, so regular playing card games don't help me. I want the image of the card to be displayed on the game board either right side up or upside down depending upon the button pushed by the player. I want each player to play 1 card from one pile (blue-50 cards total) and 4 cards from the other pile (red-200 cards total). They can only draw 1 blue card, and 1 red card on their first turn. After that, they can only draw 1 red card per turn, until they have drawn 4 red cards total. The total number of cards each player can have on the game board is 5 cards, then the round ends. Each deck has the same cards but shuffled in random order. The decks can't be stacked the same, for each player. Each card has a certain value. The card from the blue pile is the main card that the cards from the red pile will add to or subtract from. If the match between the opponents is tied, no score is given to either player, but the cards from both players to go to the corresponding "tie" piles (one red and one blue) that will be randomly distributed by the computer, once each player has exhausted their own decks first. The tie piles are used at the end of the game to play the final round or rounds of the game. After each round, the victor of that round gets the points on his opponents cards, plus 1000 points for winning the round. I want the cards to just "disappear" or placed in the computer's "discard" pile after each round, so they cannot be used again. I want each player to have a turn being first at the beginning or each round. (If player 1 is first in round 1, player 2 will go first in round 2 and so on.) I want the scores for each card to be calculated and placed in a box according to which player the cards belong to. Once the round is ended, the victor will receive the final score in their "total score" box. I also want a "round number" box to indicate which round it is. No winner will be declared until the players use all their cards and/or the computer deals all the tie deck cards (which are shuffled before dealing). At the end of the game, the person with the highest score is the winner.
I also would like to allow players to challenge each other and accept or decline a challenge. In order to do that, the players must login first. There must also be a list of available players to challenge.
Is there a program that not only builds the user interface, but also will allow me to insert my graphics? Kind of like WYSIWYG HTML builders? (Preferably FREE) I have a gui builder, but have no clue as to how to put in the graphics or get it to work. I don't have any connections to the programming world, nor am I able to return to school at this time. The programs that Sun offers are not adequate for me, because I need to be able to install it, and run it without going through the "msdos classpath" thingy. I need a "wizard" type program that is truly for "dummies." Something that I can just put in my images and tell it what I want it to do IN PLAIN ENGLISH. For instance, if I want the "login button" to save the login information to a file and/or to the game. The players can have their same login info stored in a file, and they can return without creating a new name. The website service I want to place this on, doesn't allow chmoding for CGI, so I can't use that. Another example, if I want each card to have a differnt point level and either subtract from or add to the blue. Or how to get the pop-up for the card displayed in the player's hand. I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions?

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The programs that Sun offers are not adequate for me, because I need to be able to install it, and run it without going through the "msdos classpath" thingy. I need a "wizard" type program that is truly for "dummies." Something that I can just put in my images and tell it what I want it to do IN PLAIN ENGLISH. For instance, if I want the "login button" to save the login information to a file and/or to the game. The players can have their same login info stored in a file, and they can return without creating a new name. The website service I want to place this on, doesn't allow chmoding for CGI, so I can't use that.
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This is a surely a joke. You honestly expect to get this for free. Even for an experienced programmer, to write 3/4 decent games - configure them to your network and meet these conditions. You're talking BIG or big-ish project here. As per your request, there is no such thing as point and click programming and there never ever will be.
Use Macromedia Director. Closest thing you'll get to
WYSIWYG programming. It's for simpletons and
non-programmers.Ah, noooo. The shockwave games have been programmed in Lingo, which is quite powerful and much harder as a programming language than java (its also outdated, has some nasty featured and its a definite falling star). Flash gets a bit nearer with a point and click effort and you can do a surprising amount without knowing about programming, also as a media for the Internet its better supported than Shockwave and even java for the Web. But for any sort of worthwhile game need sprogramming knowledge.
To conclude:
you don't want to learn to program.
noone is going to do this for you.
You're a bit f***ed then aren't you.
On a brighter note, if you pay me ?1,000.00 (half in advance), I'll think about it - solution in java or Flash, 3 games, ?1,500.00 for both. I can take it or leave it btw, couldn't give a sh*t either way.