I'm tied in knots. My excel export says that we mailed an appeal to, say, 10,000 people. (That's what is in the organization's shared file for everyone to see.) I noted the appeal on these constituent's Appeal tab as well. However, when the records were merged and husbands and wives received...

I would use the appeal as an all encompassing like Golf Sponsor I would then link the actual gifts to the annual event like 09Golf, 10Golf, etc. as registration fees or other donations as appropriate. I wouldn't use attributes at all if I had the event module. Attributes CAN be used in the Gift Detail...