I called the Commons Help Desk again (spoke to James), presented an
embellished question and received the following reply which I may
very well frame and hang.  I am cutting and pasting from the email
sent to me from the help desk.

Carmen Silva, USF OSP
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:49:40 -0400
From: "NIH Help Desk Notifications (DO NOT REPLY)" <xxxxxx@mail.nih.gov>
Subject: eRA Commons Help Desk: Ticket Closure Confirmation - # ST2140407
To: xxxxxx@usfca.edu

Dear Carmen Silva,

The eRA Commons Help Desk has completed your service ticket
requesting the following assistance:

customer needed to know if the application she submitted would go
thru, because AO's cannot submit to the NIH.

For your convenience the technician's resolution comments are provided below:

informed the caller, that when submitting to NIH as far as progress
reports, and JIT information only the SO can submit, but submitting
grant applications she is allowed to do so.
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Email: xxxxxx@od.nih.gov
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