AE CS5 and Nvida Card - Question

I am thinking of upgrading to AE cs5 (the production suite) - I undestand that cs5 AE needs certain card to run the mercury engine 64 bit.
I have Nvida GTS240 with driver updated to ver 191.07 - Will this card work with the 64bit mercury engine?
TIA
John

You misunderstand.
The Mercury playback engine is a set of features in Premiere Pro CS5. It has nothing at all to do with After Effects.
See this page.
The graphics card is not very relevant for After Effects.

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    I'm just getting in to understanding an eCommerce setup for WebTools and am hitting some mental blocks on how the payment gateway and credit card add-ons work together.  I have looked through the material on the portal but haven't been able to nail the flow of control, so any help in understanding this would be much appreciated.
    My understanding so far is that an end user of WebTools may have a collection of credit cards in his/her virtual wallet when placing an order.  When the order is going through checkout, the payment gateway either authorises or denies the order and provides some kind of authorisation token on success.
    Am I right in thinking that the order that goes through to B1 also carries the encrypted information of the credit card details and authorisation id from the gateway?  If so, are these encrypted details stored against the sales order (in the ORDR table in B1?).   
    The sync manager config just says "Certified Add on" for the "B1 CreditCard Addon" .  Does this mean that any certified credit card addon can decrypt these details?  If not, is there a predefined list of addons that work? 
    I am looking at details of the CitiXSys credit card add-on to see if that can work, but their credit card setup is at a business partner level, not at a per-user level like WebTools, so I can't see how data can be synced.  In fact, in addons that do work with WebTools, are credit card details (i.e. the list of credit cards in a users wallet) sync'd between the systems so that orders can be placed either directly in B1 OR through webtools?
    Finally - we are looking at an eCommerce implementation in Australia.  Has anyone completed an implementation here and can let us know a combination of payment gateway provider and credit card addon that works in Australia?
    thanks,
    Murray.

    Check out Verisign/PayPal/Pay Flow Pro, I believe they have a Gateway available in AUS.
    As far as the flow, the encrypted CC data is stored on the order, and right now there are a few Addons that can decrypt the data, the most popular being CitiXsys's solution(previously American Express)
    In addition to the CC number and expiration date, the AuthCode granted by the CC Gateway is also stored.
    Web tools does a minimal CC Number check before going to the CC Gateway as well, done on the Billing.aspx page, saving charges on the CC Gateway for card numbers that aren't even close to correct(such as 111 for a Visa card)
    The verify.aspx page sends data to the CC Gateway provider setup in the Admin - Setup - Credit Card Gateway, then either is returned an error message or if successful then moves to the confirm.aspx page.
    The data is then synched along with the order to B1, if so chosen in the synchmanager, in encypted format.
    There is also the option of using the CC Gateway's website to do the capture as well. This means you manually generate a payment in B1 of couse.

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