What to take in consideration before to start.

hi, i am 100% new at this and although there's a lot of support out there, there's too much!!
I've been using flash for a while now but more on the design side so never switch to AS3... I need to develop a "members directory"  and the chosen software is Adobe air, so i have to learn it quick.
If anybody could point me in the right direction to learn and produce a project at the same time, i would be so greatful.
I assume that i would draw n flash and either use flash or flex for the localDB. i found "Using the SQLite database access API in Adobe AIR" now my first question is about what's copyrighted and whats not?(i was thinking of tweeking the insync app and see if i can start trying stuff with that)(don't even know if it's doable yet?!!? but most importantly was wondering if it was accepted or not )
- could i use insync as the base for my project? (it's already doing half of what i am trying to do)
i have so many question like this but adobe forum seems to be use by ppl who are already past the first learning curve.
What steps do you recomand for a new user, and how do i know what i will need.... so far FLEX seems to be the favorite, would it be best to start with that?......
I KNOW IT"S MANY QUESTIONs but i relly feel lost and i think that any comments could help me here!
Thanks in advance.

Sure: learn new things, and be great at them, but do not develop production code while learning, it's a recipe for disaster.)
I know I am going into this backward but it's not like if I've got a choice, my boss seems to think that if I am a graphic designer I should be able to learn and produce a desktop application in no time, luckily we have AIR that kinda help more graphic oriented ppl to achieve such application, am I right?
I don't have a difficult project (it's pretty much like the Employee management app but for a member directory instead) I hope I'll be able to learn from what's out there already because my knowledge is a bit old now, I still do my flash in AS2 and never done DB from scratch and have no knowledge of Java except for copy&pasting..... I’ve got a month to produce it!!!
That is why I was leaning to flex... it seems to me that it will allow me to set up the app basics more easily then flash and that way I can concentrate on learning that SQLite Example for Adobe AIR and from what I gather so far I am lucky that my project have examples that fits my needs but if I had a choice I would do that all differently.
Couple of beginner questions...
1- We can do the same result app with either flash/flex/java etc the only difference is the way we write it? (pretty much related to AS3)
2- The help sys in flex is nice, but is there a secret for finding error solution quickly (like an error db)??(I found plenty to learn but when googling simple error msg, I never find solution!?)
foxchx wrote:
I gather so far that I am lucky that my project have examples that fits my needs
3- I still don't know what's accepted and not in terms of copyright and reverse engineer apps?
      I was thinking "inSync" but now learning "flex in a week" and they use "employee management" that I could almost just use as is...
                    ...I don't want to rip-off anybody but needs to find shortcuts somewhere!
4- We have to be very careful with the CPU usage as AIR tends to waste a lot of mem?
Thanks for all the help

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