MMATTIX444,
After working with ESRI support, we were, WERE, able to get some things figured out. As for how we came to use ArcPad... Our office manager purchased 2 Handheld Nautiz X7 GPS units to replace our outdated Trimbles. We were informed that ArcPad was the software required to use these units. You are correct in that I, we, are CAD users and are very new to GIS. But since we need GPS units to collect data, these specific units came at high regard to use from a client. So far, we have been impressed with it's usability and interface. We had completed a few "test runs", and were able to, at the time, place the points into AuctoCAD Map 3D. Today, we are running into the issue of having the points come in at an incorrect scale which I thought was corrected previously, but my Map guy is having an issue getting the point locations correct.