Flex would fit perfectly with that.  I was looking to do something very simple with the Live data stuff since I would be doing it by myself.  But if you guys are going to do something or need some extra hands on something you are doing, I would be all in.  My skillset is more with Java/C# and backend systems.  But I don't mind learning anything really.

 Eh, well, we won't be doing anything for a while. Wanna get through a couple months of college first, get used to the new work levels of work load, and get a better understanding of computing and such through the course. Everything, at the moment, is just a pipe dream.

You, have, however, created an interest in me for Flex, I've been looking into what it is. I'm actually a little lost with what it actually is. My brain is slow today. And the fact that Adobe is doing anything outside of Photoshop/buying out other firms is, quite frankly, shocking.

Flex is basically Flash but with a programmer more in mind instead of an artist.  It uses ActionScript and MXML(an xml type language for laying out visual elements).  It is good because it runs on the Flash engine which is pretty much ubiquitous on the net.  Actionscript is a quite extensive object oriented language.  Pretty easy to map data from the front end to the back end as well.  It plays very well with Java.  Very easy to make visually compelling content.  Probably wouldn't be good for anything computationally extensive.

Question: Can you launch other applications through Flex? Like, for the example above, if someone wanted to launch a game, would that be possible? How about with special parameters, like launching the game with the intention of connecting to a specific server (ie - how xfire works).

Hmm...I am a Flex noob, so I am not completely sure on this but, it depends on what you mean by launch a game.  Do you mean to launch a game that is installed on the hard drive?  If that is the case, I do not think Flash is given the right to run anything on the client.  I could be wrong but that seems like a security issue.  I am unfamiliar with XFire, is it a web app or a client side app?  Because if XFire is a web page that is able to fire off some commands with JavaScript, then Flex would be able to speak to some JavaScript in the page as well.  And if it could do that, then passing parameters would be no problem as well, depending on what the game allowed.

xfire is a client side app. However, once it's installed you can use it to launch games straight from a website.

So, for example, I create a thread here with a link to my CoD4 server, with Xfire I can click straight on that link and it will launch into the game through Xfire.

An example of the link would be this:

xfire:join?game=cod4mp&server=xxx.xx.xx.xx:xxxxx

However, I think this needs some kind of control over the registry, so I'm now incredibly highly doubting that it's possible without some form of plugin.

Ah, I see.  Does the XFire app need to be running for the http request to succeed?  Is it in the taskbar?  If not, I have no idea how that works.  That would be beyond me.  I have never done any programming that involves the registry.  That is not my area.  If the app was running, then it would be trivial.