No problem. I like all of the suggestions. This is why I asked for advice. I do know about opening a jpeg as a pseudo RAW file in CS5. I am going to try these; especially the RAW noise reduction because it is almost identical to the noise reduction feature in lightroom 3. I also catalog and save all of my original files on another drive. I need not worry about screwing things up. One of these days I will become good at it. As far as composition goes, well, that's another story. Once again, thank you all.
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