Q: I have stayed with Snow Leopard because I LOVE the AppleWorks database features. Is there not an application out there that allows for same type of db personalizing ???

Roger Wilmut has some recommendations in his excellent series on Abandoning Appleworks:

http://rfwilmut.net/notes/aw/page5.html

Hi tek'

FileMakerPro offers more capabilities and a similar degree of customisation, but at a higher price, both in $ and in complexity/learning curve. The link will take you to their website.

Regards,

Barry

The open-source suite LibreOffice has a database component that is compatible with MS Access:

http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/

And the Oracle MySQL community edition has an MS Access to MySQL migration tool.