Thanks man, coming from you, the resident guru, that feels really good. It took me quite a while, but I think I'm getting it. I can't tell you how many times I would drive them out, exit, and then check the file and it would show up with zero kb's. Super frustrating. If you don't mind sometime I may PM you with some questions....
Regarding the side lines, yes, I used Esotic's AI Line Helper app from RD. In doing some reading up, he said somewhere that once the csv's are baked into the ai fast lane file (hold shift when you start the track up after the csv's are done), you don't really need them anymore (You'll see the time stamp on the fast lane file update).
If this first effort seems okay, I'll work on a few more that seem to need it.