Grepping around, I see that I'm not AT ALL alone in being... challenged... by the process of setting up an iPhone app, getting it to run, giving it my testers, and so on.

I've gotten it to work. Somehow I emailed a copy or two to testers, and eventually got my li'l app into the store, and that was fine.

But I can't say a really, deeply understand it! (And I don't do iDev every day. Even now my recollection of what I did is kind-of hazy.)

I'm moderately capable of understanding things, if presented, well, you know, in a way I can understand.

Can anyone point me to a crystal clear explanation of what provisioning actually is?

I feel that if I understood it, the recipes to do it would be obvious.

Thanks!