Well, guys, I got my CWI card in the mail today! I found this forum to be invaluable in supplying the groundwork for me to follow to achieve this.
Everybody out there preparing for the CWI test, just read everything here and follow the advice and you can't lose. Thanks to Bill West at the Lincoln Electric Welding School for his CWI-Prep Course and Ken Coryell for the AWS Seminar, they took the 4 months of home study that I did beforehand and put it all together. Toughest test I've ever taken in my life; AWS just doesn't hand these things out and rightfully so.
Thank you all, again, it feels good,
wick