I second the MultipleIEs package for basic browser testing. There are a few issues, but for testing web apps/css/browser-based javascript/etc... it's just the ticket. I installed the whole package, and actually have IEs v3.0, 4.01, 5.0, 5.01, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0 all working quite nicely side-by-side. I'll typically have IE 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, FireFox, Safari, and Opera all operating simultaneously during web development and CSS in particular (helps greatly to tame the box model hacks).

True dat. Or... a lot of the development products nowadays tried to come up with catchy names or acronyms, and in so-doing make it next to impossible to do efficient and fruitful searches. Trying to find any information related to "Flash", for example, no matter what other keywords I try to narrow in on, typically results in 4 pages of porn link results before I actually get anything useful.

Oh my. That's a loaded question. I take on everything they throw at me. So... so far this year... I've been coding in -JScript/Classic ASP -VBScript (though mainly translating to JScript) -PHP -ColdFusion (not sure why it's not more prevailant... every time I pick it up it surprises me with it's power) -XML -XHTML -Flex -JavaScript (server- and client-side) -CSS and -JSON Not much .NET lately (last 18 months) because there hasn't been much of a need and I'm happy to be rid of it. It does take a few minutes to float from one to the other. And I find myself leaving off a semi-colon, or using the wrong function (did you know VBScript's "InStr()" function does something completely different from JavaScript's "InStr()" function... that's one that trips me up all the time) occasionally. But like Trollslayer, a few years ago, I'd be knee-deep in Delphi, C++ and VB all at the same time back when we were doing CD-ROM projects. That was enough to turn your head inside out. I just consider it the price of doing business.

Neither. I rarely look at degrees when considering a new hire. One of the best developers (not solely graphic design) I've known had a Bachelors of Fine Arts. And some of the best web engineers I know don't have any degrees at all. By the contrary, as someone else mentioned... if I ever saw a resume with a "Bachelor of Web Development" degree, it'd actually be something of a strike against the applicant. I would start to think something was awry since the likelihood of there being such a degree is slim, but even if such a degree existed I'd imagine the curriculum to be so specialized and narrow to be useful.