I'm looking for something like Quicken/Quickbooks and I'm
open to using Excel to doing this. It will mean some
programming, but that is fine since it gives me complete
control over my destiny. I didn't find much on this on the
'net, so I was wondering if anyone has done this? What were
the problems? Any other advice? Is there some way to do
online banking/bill paying via Excel?

Thanks,
Dave