I need to find an existing manual system for which a computer solution is
feasible.

Past projects have included video shop databases, hotel reservations and
sport centre bookings.

I am looking for a project a bit more imaginative and challenging.

Any ideas or advice appreciated

thanks

If you can afford it, or if you someone in your school has it, a teacher
or student, or maybe the school will buy it...I recommend getting
Microsoft's Mastering Visual Basic 6. I've used it in my own VB training.
On the CD you'll be (re)learning a lot about VB from the bottom up. They
also have a great project called State University Bookstore. The project
encompass the use of data environments, data reports, classes, Active X
DLL's, and publishing the project.

The only drawback, is that you have to have Microsoft SQL Server installed
because the CD will install the StateUBookstore database on your SQL
server.

Hope this helps.

Jeff Lawson (http://www.geocities.com/lawsonj65)
Programmer Analyst
Dyntel/DynCorp Corporation