Ancient lappy for scouting

[rbayer]

Honestly, you'd be better off with a commercial database program. From what you've described, even the old ClarisWorks 4.0 (anybody remember that?). Are you trying to do this in a distributed manner, such that multiple people with multiple laptops could all be accessing and updating the same database? If so, I'd recomend dumping MySQL and the webserver on some "server" in your pit area and just having regular browsers on the laptop.