That explains a great deal. This is almost starting to make sense. Thanks for explaining about these various wiring scenerios. I still like my idea about using multiple wireless hotshoe flashes because they are more portable as opposed to big studio lights, but as LostPatrol mentioned such wireless flashes would work but it would be much more diffictult to control the lighting than with studio lights...but apparantly not for certain applications of still life photography as I described above. Someday I would like to learn how to take portrait photography...I studied some lights at a Walmart studio the other day and it didn't look too complex. I say if Walmart can do it then so can I! I think I'm gonna book mark this page so I can study it. Lighting is still a sea of confusion to me, but lots of cool info in here...very interesting and educational for me. :-)