"...spending a couple of hours on google instead of working :)"

Ya know, I do that all the time myself, but I'm usually searching for p-- ... nevermind... ;-)

"...and it gave the illusion the walls where bleeding! !"

That's hilarious!

The Adobe plugin is called Camera RAW - but I don't think it'll work with 6 - I think that's for CS and CS2.

And it's a little better to do your sharpening in post as you'll have more control (yes, I'm a control freak...) so I'd turn it off in-camera.

As far as shooting "fast" and having to worry about saving files - how big is the in-camera buffer? Got any idea how many RAW shots it can fit before needing to stop so it can write and make space? It used to be common that it was only 4-5 but they've gotten much faster and better about this lately, so shooting fast in RAW might not be much of a problem now.

I used to shoot events in jpeg, and all my product shots in RAW - but basically if there's ANYTHING I'm concerned for quality that jpeg compression (even just a little) might muddy the fine details, I shoot in RAW regardless of how much time it'll take me to process later.

What're we doin' t'nite, Brain?

-Lew ;-)