So far, I have had people recommending ditching Access in favor of
Delphi. I do have access to Borland Delphi 5. However, the last
structured programming class that I had was BASIC quite some time ago
(not Visual, either), and I kind of had to crash-course on Java for a
Data Structures class two semesters ago.

Are there any Borland Delphi tutorials, especially any geared toward
working with Delphi and Interbase together, that exist out there that
can help me shorten the learning curve? Any decent books geared
toward the beginner?

Thanks,

Kelly