Adobe Capture Raw and Nikon Capture NX

I've just bought a Nikon D80 (lucky me but now broke) and have been playing around with RAW files. I can see great advantages in shooting in this format.
I have PSE 4 on a Mac and it seems to me, from looking at tutorials on the web, that all the features of the RAW plug-in are not available in PSE. I know about the lack of support for Sidecar files but there isn't any colour space support either so far as I can see and there are fewer tabs in the window. Is this correct or am I missing something? I'm not overly bothered but it would be good to know.
Nikon offer a free trial of their Capture NX application. I'm reluctant to try this given the plug-in clashes which arose from installing Nikon's rather poor Picture Project FROM the CD which came with the camera (I've now deleted it). Would Capture NX offer me anything significant beyond what I can do with ACR?

On some photography forums I read that after you manipulate a NEF (RAW) file using Nikon Capture NX the file is no longer recognizable by Adobe RAW.
I also have a new Nikon D80 and like some of the features of Capture NX but usually use Adobe Photoshop Elements (4.0 & 5.0) to organize and do simple edits. Therefore, my current plan is to only use Capture NX to work on key NEF photos and then save as JPEG for PSE 5.0 to handle.
Too bad there wasn't one standard for NEF file edits.

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    uncompressed PNG file)
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    using the trial of NX (just wanted to test it since
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    explain me this huge difference in quality?
    if needed, I can provide more screenshots with other
    photos
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    To be honest Capture NX cannot be compared to Aperure there not in the same league, and you can pick up Aperture for the Same price as Capture NX on ebay brand new i would alwasy go for aperture far better value for money IMHO.

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