Access: Friend or Foe

So, until Beth and I were forced to create an Awards Database, I loved Access. It can do basically anything you want, look anyway you want. It's great. But lately, especially since Beth is leaving me and we are forced to create this thing in record time; I hate it. It's not cooperating at all. Just when we think we've fixed it, we haven't. We tried unbound boxes, text boxes, look-up wizards... nothing is working. So, I think I'm about to tell them all they will need to hire someone else expertise on this one because we're through.