Hey Waylon, sorry about the trouble getting the post in, but a hearty welcome aboard. I'd be happy to work with you on any usability issue... a step-by-step product creation could be accomplished w/ a contributed module to break the node entry form up, but I'm not sure how difficult that would be to hammer out. I know some folks have been looking into this for Drupal in general in the Usability group, but I'm not sure if they ever got anywhere. Doing this on a store-wide scale would prove even trickier.