Employee Training Scheduling and Materials Template

I have been looking at a way of recreating our existing Employee Training Course Booking system - .asp pages with a backend access database, to our SharePoint Environment. I have been investigating the Fantastic 40 template - Employee Training Scheduling and Materials.

Wss Demo do some great demos of the Fantastic 40 Templates:

http://www.wssdemo.com/application/default.aspx

The template is easy to install and initially looks promising, with some nice features - it sends email reminders and confirmations both to those attending and those running the courses, and allows for post course satisafaction surveys to be completed.

However a key limitation is that the template does not allow for a manager to book one of their team on a course. The booking has to be made by the end user.

Looking at the template I have made a couple of minor tweeks that I'll post about in more detail shortly. The tweeks are editing the course button name from 'My Reservation' to 'Book Course' which seemed to be more obvious. I also amended some of the auto emails that get sent out, to hyperlink to the Training Team Site rather than tell you to go there.

I have also seen a few other sites that detail a bug around a user cancelling a course and the number of course attendees not getting updated correctly:

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/09/19/employee-training-and-scheduling-template-a-couple-fixes.aspx

The permissions as to who can do what task on the template also don't seem that straightforward. I would be interested to understand if anyone has the template running successfully in the corporate environment?