You should have got in close for some of those chromed parts.

When it comes to a budget telephoto, I can vouch for the 1980's Tokina SDII SZ 70-210. I got a pristine copy on Ebay for £40 ( and I've seen others). It's manual focus with PKA mount and takes excellent pictures. One of the original selling points was lack of chromatic abberations, and it's true. Also the same size as an 18-55 until extended.

In this case it is never, 64bit code won't run on a 32bit processor.

If its the Pentax Silkypix version check out their website. I'm sure saw a download to make older versions compatible with Win7.

Well done, but stay at home, something like that happens once in a lifetime!

The beginning of the end for Adobe. Apparently they expect to triple their revenues in the next few years but polls of Creative Suite users indicate a severe reluctance by many to upgrade.

Adobe seem intent on extracting very last penny they can from loyal customers and I don't mean 'Elements' users but professionals. Today I had to try and resolve an InDesign issue at work but the problem as I discovered on the web was incompatibilty issues between versions, even betwen 5 and 5.5.

I see a lot of people sticking to their current versions, software hacks being developed other and products moving in to fill the gap. Adobe is the indusry standard for various apps but standards aren't set in stone.

(All that said, I don't care because I use Paintshop Pro)

You could turn UAC off, install and turn back on.