It took me ages, but I finally figured it out. When I ran the VSI installer for the AJAX extender toolkit, project templates were intalled in C:\Users\myName\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C# .

So, with that in mind, I imagine I should be able to open a project based on that template. Only - I cannot figure out how to do so. Shouldn't VS check that location and add it to the possible templates upon which projects are based? Or am I gravely misunderstanding how it is supposed to work?

Can someone explain to me how to open a project template which is based on those installed in the above mentioned location.

 Thanks.

 At long last, I am up and running with the AJAX extended toolkit. Thanks to this tutorial - http://www.15seconds.com/issue/080626.htm

Thank you John Peterson, you are a guru!!!