Warning to the rest of you, more geek speak:
Filemaker was a pretty good system for the average person to work with. Access is a turd compared to what else is out there. MS SQL can get bogged down pretty bad without regular maintenance in my experience in two major deployments. One at a newspaper and the other in EHR/Clinicals software. The db where I worked in CA was a 928GTS speed wise compared to a 924 but with it being proprietary it would be difficult to adapt to software not of their design.
Found out we have a pops concert to attend tonight at 7:30. I would have thought our daughter would have said something since she is in both band and choir. Then again she is a teen girl now.