I've experienced a slough of interoperability issues with SF Connect for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook 2003, and 2007. Does anyone have an opinion on which other versions are most stable?

I'm new to visualforce development and I'm trying to add a custom button to a visualforce page that performs basic lead search functionality. I have the page up and running fine, but now I want to add a button that associates the found lead records to a campaign. So something like, Add to Campaign, button would be great. I know that custom controller needs to be built for the campaign button. Does anyone have any examples that might help with this scenario? 

Here's my existing code 

 <apex:page controller="theController" showHeader="false" standardStylesheets="false">

   <apex:form >      <apex:pageBlock mode="edit" id="block">         <apex:pageBlockSection >            <apex:pageBlockSectionItem >               <apex:outputLabel for="searchText">Search Text</apex:outputLabel>               <apex:panelGroup >                  <apex:inputText id="searchText" value="{!searchText}"/>                  <apex:commandButton value="Go!" action="{!doSearch}"                                       rerender="block" status="status"/>               </apex:panelGroup>            </apex:pageBlockSectionItem>        </apex:pageBlockSection>        <apex:actionStatus id="status" startText="requesting..."/>        <apex:pageBlockSection title="Results" id="results" columns="1">           <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!results}" var="l"                                rendered="{!NOT(ISNULL(results))}">              <apex:column value="{!l.name}"/>                            <apex:column value="{!l.phone}"/>                            <apex:column value="{!l.email}"/>                <apex:column value="{!l.description}"/>                 </apex:pageBlockTable>        </apex:pageBlockSection>      </apex:pageBlock>   </apex:form></apex:page>

I am trying to understand standard controllers vs. custom--and how they can be used with Custom Objects?

Most of the code samples I have found all use the standard Account or Contact as the example like...

<apex:page standardController="Account" showHeader="true"  tabStyle="Account" > 

I have several Custom Objects that I have created---and have trying to create a simple Tabbed view of the object detail and related lists instead of the typical list view--using VF.

I am just starting on VF...

>Do standard controllers get 'auto-created' for each custom object?--assume so and thats how the display using standard SF look?

> When I try starting my VF page to be used on my Custom Object with...

<apex:page standardController="ThenameIusedtocreatetheobject_c" showHeader="true"  tabStyle="ThenameIusedtocreatetheobject_c"" > 

I get errors - ThenameIusedtocreatetheobject_c Does not Exist, etc.

What am I missing about standard controllers on custom objects?  Do all custom objects require a custom controller to be coded?

Thanks for the assistance...

KS