Vulcan, I have had the program for a while but was only able to install tonight..so a couple of pics into the software.  So far, it looks good.  My pc processor would not accept MS SP2 for XP and SP2 is needed for Lightroom and likely other newer software.  It always crashed my pc..so while remodeling at home, no place for the pc, a geek got the pc and all is fine and Lightroom is up and running.  I tried raw and it worked fine.  I tried a jpg and it did fine there, also...but I prefer so far to do fine adjustments in other software, using Lightroom for "exposure" and basic color adjustments on jpg.  Time will tell but so far I do like it. I have not explored the options beyond "develop" so far.

With a 30 day trial offer from Adobe, the software is certainly worth a tryout by anyone interested.   Thanks for the thread.      Tom.