Work (friends only)

Ok, what I couldn't say on the public post is "UGH!". We are running, screaming, away from Microsoft's ASP.Net AJAX implementation. I haven't had anywhere near as much trouble with JavaScript and AJAX as I have with this - I'd rather write my own AJAX implementation! As it is, I'm going to make a "semi" final decision in the next couple days on either Prototype, Scriptalcious[sp], Rico or Yahoo! UI. Leaning towards Yahoo!, but we'll see. I really just want something to facilitate the XML/JSON/SOAP/whatever calls, and let me handle the UI (as it'll be really pretty and dynamic and whatnot). I may keep ASP.Net for the backend, as I'd rather not touch PHP, I don't know enough Ruby, and I don't really know Java (and setting up Java is a pain in the tuchis).