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A couple of questions about your two suggetions:

1) About auxiliary tables.  Is the general practice when creating a Drupal module to create the tables in Drupal's database, or in CiviCRM's database?

2) I am trying to get a handle on the appropriate Civi hooks to use, and I'm finding it's a very steep learning curve to understand the hook specification (http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/CiviCRM+hook+specification).  It's partially because the terminology is different (e.g. "page" in Civi doesn't refer to pages that contain forms).  Do you have any pointers that would make it easier for me to evaluate the hook specifications and determine if the hooks I need even exist?  Right now I'm plodding along, trying likely-looking ones out in a test module, but I imagine there might be a more thorough reference out there that would take some of the guesswork out.

To start out with, I need a hook that can either add a tab to the event configuration form (apparently not hook_civicrm_tabs because that is only for viewing contacts), and/or one that can inject form elements and other code into the "Fees" tab.  Do those things exist?

About the tables: will I be dealing with hook_civicrm_custom at all to deal with auxiliary tables built into to the Drupal database, or is that for a different kind of custom table?

Then it looks like I'll be using hook_civicrm_postProcess and hook_civicrm_buildForm to put new form elements in the Fees tab when editing events, and then to write the data collected to auxiliary tables.

More questions:
- Is there a hook I can use to present the user with more form elements as necessary, as is done if you add Discount Sets to the Fees tab? 
- Also, is there a hook that can add tabs to the Event editing form?  Looks like civicrm_tabs is only for viewing a contact.

Yikes.  So that means I'm not just talking about a Drupal module, I'm talking Drupal module plus hacks to the civicrm templates?

Is there no way to at least keep the templates in my Drupal module's folder (as is standard practice for Drupal)?