Alex.be you are absolutely correct. I may be a new poster here (long time lurker) but it blows me away the number of "plz u can writ mai prg 4 mee?" type posts there are. Not the OP in this case, at least he learned how to load the data he needed in by himself, just not the most efficiently. I'm still new to the Objective C language, but have been learning a lot from the knowledgeable posters by lurking and reading PDFs and tutorials- not by asking questions.
Somehow everybody and their brother found the download link to the SDK but missed the 10 tons of sample programs, video and PDF guides right below it in the iPhone Dev Center!
My favorite one this week was in another forum (Macrumors I think) where someone was asking if the SDK was a GUI editor that built your code and app for you, point and click like "Frontpage".
Hopefully, with a bunch of sweat and reading the docs my first app will make it in the store by the end of the year. I went a bit ambitious for my first time out and started in with a game immediately. But that's only because I had previous programming and art background. *lurks more*