OA Framework newbee - Need suggestions/advice for a new project

Dear All,
We are starting up a new "Online Forms" project which aims to move all the offline paper based forms to online forms with online approvals etc.
We are still new to OA, hence looking for tips from the gurus out here.
We have various forms (upto 50 forms) e.g. Request for an Employment Letter, Request for Car Loan, Request for a salary bank transfer , in which the employee fills out certain fields specific to that request and submits the request. The request then goes for approval.
I have gone through the OA dev guide which states that the structure should be :
schema/server - EO
server - VO, AM
webui - Controller
lov/schema/server - LOV related EO
lov/webui - LOV related controller
1 Should we further segregate everything based on the form ?
E.g. For car loan request the EO s will go to : schema/server/carloan
and For salary bank transfer : schema/server/bnktransfer
and The common EO s would go to : schema/server/common
2 If we have some helper classes, where would these go ? under util/schema ?
3 How many application modules should be created for such an implementation. Should we have one AM per form ? (With LOVs having their dedicated AM?)
Will appreciate if someone can guide us on the above questions. It would be helpful to set up the right base !
Thanks,
Gagan

Thanks James and Peddi !
Peddi, thank you for the detailed stucture. Did you mean that we must put in all the pages and their CO s in the same package ? There are going to be so many forms, with each form having atmost 5 pages - is there any harm creating one package per form ? (Ofcourse beneath the standard structure. E.g. CO's would be in webui, then would be further classified based on the form, so webui/carloan, webui/empletter and then there would be webui/common - for all the common stuff)
We are also thinking in terms of one AM per form. The forms are simple -
Page 1 - are you submitting for yourself or another employee
Page 2- The form itself - The forms may display some employee information etc from APPS. (Grade, salary, exisitng loans etc)
Page 3 - Review or confirmation page with a submit button.
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