Well Tom I  think it is a great programme for the Money no idea about  the latest version of PSP  I still use version 8  but save for the web  with CS2 certainly gives me all the power I need to get the right control and the human eye is still the best judge of quality.  PSP  is less memory hungry that Photoshop CS2 and less processor dependant but if you tweak photoshop you can make it fly along. Having forked out all that money for CS2 seems to me to be pointless... I am still discovering new things it can do since version 4!!  It may be a bit of a monster but  I am sure you can do what ever you like with it...  You can save a lot of time in photoshop by the use of the batch processing and actions  

Danny O'Byrne  http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt