[espresso]

Once again, thank you Bill for great contributions !
However, it is not only your mod that causes the check out to skip the first page, I was refering to x-cart original Fast-Lane-Check-Out.
Try the x-cart demo on their demo website and you will see that you will never have the opportunity during checkout to enter a discount coupon.
The only time you have a chance to enter a discount coupon is when you add a product to the cart (which brings up the standard cart page) and when you click on "cart" (which also brings up the standard cart page).
I'm still wondering how the community is dealing with this.
Thanks to your ideas, I called up the "modules/Discount_Coupons/add_coupon.tpl" from "skin1/modules/Fast_Lane_Checkout/checkout_2_method.tpl".
Unfortunately, I was not able to place it above the "payment options" because I guess it interferes with the {capture} code (I'm not a pro) so I placed it at the bottom of the page and it works.
It's uggly though because it'll redirect you to the first page (your cart) again. But at least, customers don't miss the opportunity to enter a discount code.
I'm sure Bill, your new long awaited check-out module will take care of all this