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The audience is an important factor in this instance.

I prefer the tabbed formats as my Students are all children/young adults. Also, as we are a school, I do not need them to fill in the extra information. All that is needed for me is the info under the first tab.

Becasue of this it makes the tabbed solution light years ahead in useability and scalability for ME in MY enviromnent and suiting MY needs.

I however understand that dealing with adults and particularly adults in a purely online environement has a completely different set of needs and a different definition of usability (I hate the word, but it fits here) than myself.

So, I do not really know the best answer here. Obviously whatever is built needs to meet the needs of "most" users. But who or what they are I really woundn't know.