I tried to reply to the Allan Hise answer about my problem but the list moderator said that it was too long so here goes. Allan is completely correct about my situation. I shoot mostly in the studio with a 15 ft firewire cable connected to the camera (D1X) and the digital photo bypasses the compact flash card and opens directly on the computer screen. In fact the nikon capture software will let me shoot from the computer as well as change settings on the camera without getting up. I do shoot raw files and edit them in photoshop. I am using capture 4 but I am not all the way upgraded on that so I will try that. I do have 3rd party ram because apple sent ram that didn't fit and said they could not help me? I will try that also. Thanks to everyone. Don www.distelphoto.com