Thanks nlarson, but I think it illustrates my point, the etc etc part in your example, you MUST know the exact number of rows to put in there. This is ok you do know this info often, but not always....
Anyways I'm in agreement with you, I want to dashboard, and the aware charts just don't have all the options you need to do this. So google charts would be great, the offline issue is no concern to us.