Thanks for your thoughtful response :)

Admit tingly, reports would get me the information I need quicker and easier.  However, my task is to create an interactive payroll process that multiple departments can contribute to.  My vision is to create a FLOW that finds Opportunity records that require a commission to be paid.  The FLOW would need to grab multiple Opportunity records and then store field information from these Opportunity records into multiple variables.

I know how to use FLOW to store field information from ONE Opportunity into multiple variables.  I don't know how to store field information from MULTIPLE Opportunities into multiple variables using ONE FLOW.  This is the core of my question.

For example: Joe Smith has three deals (Opportunity records) that have not paid him commission yet.  I need a FLOW to find Joe's three deals (based on fields that already exist in my ORG) and then store each of Joe's commission values (these values are found in fields on the opportunity) into three separate variables.  Finally, these three variables will be summed and printed in a payroll record.

When I try to do this with a FLOW Record Lookup, I can sort the multiple records (ascending or descending) but the FLOW takes the values from the first or TOP record only.

For example:  Find Joe's three opportunities, and sort by the commission amout: descending.  The FLOW is taking the highest commisison amount and storing it in a variable.  What about the second and third highest amounts (located on separted, lookedup records) ; those need to be stored in variables also.  

I'd also like to find all of the January 2013(and each subsequent month) Opportunities with a specific commission amount and store those amounts in separate variables:  Like January commission was X, February commission is Y, etc.  Opportunities have deal Month and Year fields already.

Ultimately, I need to create a record on a custom object that displays the number of deals that need to paid and the commission amounts. Lookup fields in combination with formula fields will not work as each deal is a separate Opportunity record.  I'd have to have 15 or 20 lookups on one Payroll record that all attach to different Opportunities which just isn't practical.  

In addition, I'd like the FLOW to deliver some text like:

"Hi Joe, you have THREE deals that will pay a total commission amount of $3000 on the upcoming pay period." and then direct Joe to his own personal payroll record that was created by the FLOW, populated with information found in existing Opportunities.

Anyway, I think you get the point.  Directed help in the following areas would be great:

A. Using ONE FLOW to grab MULTIPLE records and then store infromation from these records into MULTIPLE variables

B. Recomendation for what I really want to do (located in the paragraph beginning with "Ultimately"

Thanks so much for your time and expertise.