COM - Getting Back to Old School (Shell.Application)

After unsuccessfully fighting zip scripts all week I decided to reach out and see if I could get some info on the shell.application COM object.  This is one used to do zipping when you're not using an executable.  I've worked with it before, but, never really nailed it down.  So, I was given several great links I want to record for posterity as another wave of projects is about to wash in and I can't research much at this point:

• http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/understanding-vbscript-the-shell-object-model-s-folder-and-folderitem-objects
• http://www.windowsitpro.com/content1/topic/understanding-vbscript-the-windows-shell-object-model/catpath/vbscript/page/3
• http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/ComRef.htm
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774094.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773938(v=vs.85).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787868(v=vs.85).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff521688(v=vs.85).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787866(v=vs.85).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774063(v=vs.85).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774089(v=vs.85).aspx