Hmmm. But if I get this new card, and I create images that seemingly have no banding, am I just fooling myself? Wouldn't it look terrible on other people's monitors? As you can tell, Im pretty clueless about this stuff so be patient with me.

**Bottom line is, my equipment is really not much different from anyone elses, yet I am the only person I know who has this problem. I talk to people about banding, and they haven't a clue what I'm on about.

Joerg - I already mentioned adding noise in the first post. Adding noise really only works effectively on small areas. Besides - it's a Band-Aid solution. I want to know why it's happening in the first place and how to avoid it. There is very little useful info on this topic out there on the web, and Adobe themselves seem content to brush over the topic.

It is simply not effective to have to add noise to every square inch of an image because of some mysterious reason.