Hi All out there,

Im new to flex. I'm thrilled with the HYPE flex has caused, and the heap of awards in so little span. I'm a flash designer and programmer. I know a little bit of web designing, i usually use Dreamweaver. Im not so good at PHP, and other web based scripts. I'm fimiliar with Macromedia Flash 8 Professional. I wanna know some thing from my GURU's here.......
1. Is flex for me?
2. Is flex a complete RIA or can desktop exe's be created?
3. Does Flex 2 have support on OS 10.4.9 and 10.5 Leopard? Can i use a single downloaded copy for both or will i need a MAC copy for MAC?
4. Im presently into desktop based applications in flash, so question 2 repeats.
5. Can I get the names of some fine, easy learning books on flex?
6. What's the future of Flex over Flash?
7. Does Flex support writing files to HD, OS native popup's, CD functionalities, Printing functionalities, Audio and Video functionalities, text parsing functionalities?
8. I have some fla and swf files with me, I want to add flex database functionalities. Can i import the swf? or fla? and code the buttons on my swf in flex?

9. You look tired. i will be back with more queries.

Im very keen to know about flex. I have read many articles. I hope someone could answer me my questions and get me started with flex.

Regards
Roshan Kolar