Don,

Glad to hear you're having good success with developing the site on your laptop at least! I can give you some tips as far as moving your site to a production environment.

Firstly, do you have anybody in mind for your hosting provider? One thing that will make this super easy (and, indeed, the only way I ever do it) is to be able to restore your database to their server.  If you purchase a dedicated or virtual dedicated server you will have this ability, but as I do not have much experience with shared hosting accounts, I'm not sure if this ability is widespread or available at all.

The two main things here are just to back up the entire web site's file system and do a complete backup of the database.  Once each of these are done, you are left to basically perform an installation with an already existing site (restore database, set up IIS, set file permissions, configure web config, etc..)

Hope that helps!

Take Care,

Ian