ATLAS.ti :) and paradigm shift

I am extremely excited about ATLAS.ti. This is a rare feeling for me, being excited about a data analysis program. My extremely limited and hectic approach to SPSS in my stats 577 class was a web of unknown actions, performing analyses that I would never want to understand. Every time I opened SPSS, I felt a lump in my throat, and a cold sweat would wash over me. Not so with this program. As soon as I started to work on it, it is something that seems much more user-friendly, and the way to code data and add notes makes sense. I realize that what I know about this program could not fill a thimble, yet I already feel worlds better opening and trying things. I am so very pleased (and relieved). I feel fortunate to have the ability to work with this data analysis program in a classroom, so that I can use it and have support. When I get to my dissertation, I believe this will work extremely well. On another note, regarding the dissertation and the approach, I must say the drafts of "pam's attempts at framing a practice-based study" (Exemplar 11.3, pgs 143-146) were very helpful. The mapping helps me "see" the evolution of her thought process. It is concrete examples such as this that model the process of how to frame an interpretive dissertation proposal. I fear that I am not framing my questions correctly in my study--that I'm being that student discussed when she states, "there aren't any concrete findings"--where I should be saying, "why should there be concrete findings?" I am having trouble shifting paradigms. I want to conduct research in a constructivist way, but I don't know if I'm there in the way I pose questions or go about conducting observations. To follow on that--the idea of discursive text v. literature review, I wrote on a post-it, "I want to be like this. When/how do I get there? Don't want to "prove" just want to know/watch/see". Needless to say, this text will get many re-reads. It may be completely falling apart by the end of my dissertation.