Developing a dating service!

Hi all, I'm looking to develop a dating / profiles database for my community users (who're writing to me everyday demanding such a service!), and was looking at the long term design aspects. While the facility should allow people to search for others based on their interests, I want to make it like a profile, to encourage more people to register, not just those looking to meet others. Eventually I hope to develop this into a registration system for the site (http://www.snooplife.com). Now I'm fairly new to database development using MySql and PHP, but I've edited and written a few basic scripts. This project shal be a big and hair tearing exercise, but I will probably release the package as open source after if people want it. I've read about database normalisation and using seperate tables interlinked so that information can be categorised. Should I be using this? Any relevant links / articles? Can people please offer me advice on possible pitfalls as well as the database design tips which I can use for such a service?? Are there any existing packages which I might be able to modify?? ANY help would be appreciated!! Thanks in advance! /sunny __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/