Thank you Rick. You must be exhausted from being bludgeoned over the head with the same questions over and over. Most of the threads I read involved your answering the questions!
What would you advise however, for a highly important item? Should I manually set the maximum bid myself? (I'm not sure how to, I just know how to "bid"). I'm still fresh off a big loss from two days ago and I'm not sure I trust AS to enter a max bid at the inputed time.
How can I monitor the sniping FROM my ebay account itself? Assuming this doesn't affect the program itself (i.e. my online banking automatically freezes my account if it's dual logged). I'm thinking since 30 second sniping is rare I might set my lead to 10 seconds. I refresh my page and if AS fails then I manually enter it myself.
My two biggest fears are AS placing my bid 30 seconds early, and AS failing to bid all together due to some sort of error.