some documentation?

I'm really at a loss on your module. I'm just starting to comprehend Drupal but I've never really done any coding for it before. I just figured out how to use the drupal_get_form() and I'm reading about the Drupal API.

print drupal_get_form('solr_search_box');

That got me started but there seems to be a lot missing. For instance, I have no idea what you mean when you say " add to your custom content type-handling modules." Furthermore, on the settings/solr page the "Default node type for Solr searches" field offers no selections.

I just looked at it again. So. I have to write a module to handle my SOLR schema? For a brief instant I thought I could just create a new content type and configure it with your module and have it convert the CCK fields to schema fields but I was insane for that instant. But wouldn't that be cool?

The main thing I don't understand (among other things) is how Drupal will deal with data that resides in SOLR vs. nodes that Drupal recognizes normally. Huge conceptual gap in my head on this one. I wish there were more (some) documentation.

Oh well, back to reading your code and the Drupal API documentation.

Now, don't think that I'm not grateful. I think your module should be a good jump off point. I'm really not sure yet.

I do like the idea of keeping SOLR separate as the ApacheSolr module doesn't do what I want (but is fairly easy to understand). I just need a front-end to SOLR that will augment the search and display of already indexed (and independently indexed) data with Drupal features.