I can give it a look if you want. I do have some background with LaTeX, but I am uncertain what do you want from me here. What tools were/are you using? The more you can tell me about both tools and your background with LaTeX the better. By the way, if you don't want to deal with syntactical matters I can actually recommend Lyx. It offers a lot in terms of pre-made templates and you can use it to get quite a lot of power from the language without knowing a word in it. It's actually pretty close to actual word processors in that sense.
Haha, don't worry I don't want anything. I was just curious if you were going to hit me with some package that completely transformed it's usage or something that I was ignorant of. But in the end it's still LaTeX :) I'll check out LyX though, but I'm definitely gunning for slighter learning curves these days.
No problem. If you would change your mind or have some more questions then don't hesitate. But it's not really just about this or that package. They add functionality but don't really transform it into something else. That would be almost like expecting C to change into Python after adding a library ;). That aside, I have discovered Scribus recently and it feels a bit better to deliver some of the more complex designs. I'm in a similar position to you, only maybe a bit farther on the curve: I wish I knew how to make LaTeX do some of this stuff :P.