wow, I've been using php for the last 3 days, and I love it...
you can check out what I've been up to at http://php.dwteam.com/joel/
Its really easy to use, I couldn't belive that I had a site kinda like this one up and running in a day... and that's with figuring out the language, figuring out how to work mysql, then figuring how to connect from PHP... I guess M$ doesn't have all the answers ;)