All right, I've read a number of posts and it appears as if Dreamweaver and FMU might not be the best solution for hosting an on-line database, but they're what I've got so I'll ask anyway.

I have a number of files I've adopted for a school of Ed website. All of the departments in the school have the same or similar templates. For a support sight, I need make some FMP databases accessessible within the template. I would like them to appear in list format (which is not an option in FMP's web publishing), if at all possible. I am working with FMP and dreamweaver on my Mac Jaguar machine but will upload the DB files to the school's Microsoft 2000 server with IIS turned on. FMU is on the MS machine, not my Mac. To my discredit I am neither a programmer nor an expert so I don't currently know and CDML, XML or even SQL. Is this going to be something that I can manage or am I dreaming? If I am dreaming, will you let me keep on dreaming and tell me how to connect these two programs anyway so they'll work for me? Thanks for all your expertise and suggestions.

Try instant Web Publishing first and see if it gets close to what you want. If it's close but not quite there, you'll need Custom Web Publishing.

See if you can find a trial of Claris Home Page 3.0 to generate the basic CDML for you. Better than DW for CDML.