@pressure,
Your absolutely right, its just that surface modeling is what really interested me about Nurbs modeling to begin with. Solid modeling can be done in most 3d programs now with Booleans, so theres not much difference there, but regardless of that, I totally understand what you mean.
I have actually tried to go on k4icy.com tutorials, but when you click on any of the links to view it. None of the images show up anymore. All the links to the images are broken. So without them the tutorials are pretty much useless for me.