HDD ??? SSD or NOT???

Hello everyone.
I am an event videographer and Running on Adobe CS5.5 as of now, I need your best humble opinion here so here it goes.
I read about SSD and have also read (Harm Millaard) post from almost a year ago, which did not say much good about SSD performance, but I also got the impresion that there was a SAVE $$$ and stick with current HDD for cheap, and to be honest I rather pay for real perfomance if I can and not go cheap and miss some of the advantages, so with that in mind, please let me know your thoughts here:
current system specs:
Graphic Card:
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 VCQFX4800
CASE:
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case with USB 3.0
Board:
EVGA X58 FTW3 132-GT-E768-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
RAM: 
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (6 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
CPU:
Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core
Cooler:
COOLER MASTER V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler Intel Core i7 compatible
HDD: 3 x Velocity Raptors 300GB-  ???????
Display:
2 x 22" Gateway Wide screen max resolution at 1650- ???????
So my last two I need to upgrade, so my questions are.
1) Is it a good idea to now move into solid state drives ( Thinking 160GB for system OS and APP, and two 460GB for footage and previews. Yes I need that much space.
2) my two Gateway monitors are almost dying and really need to replace them, what is a good monitor that I can get for around $200 - $300, I do not plan to spend more than that in display right now and yes I know I said I  don't want to go cheap but neither I want to pretend I have  5K to spend right now.
Thanks in advance
Luis Cepeda

Thanks every one...!!!
Just one more question.
I have decided to go with:
2x Dell U2412M UltraSharp 24" LED Monitor for my monitors
2x Western Digital 1 TB VelociRaptor 3.5" Internal HDD  in a Raid 0
3x Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black SATA Internal Hard Drive  also in second RAID 0
now my question, since I want to keep my original Mother Board CPU and RAM, I need to figure out the following.
My Mobo only has 2x 6Gb/s Sata ports ( Will use the the 2x Velocity Raptors in RAid 0 ) and the 3x will be 3Gb/S so will be in the compatible ports also, but my OS will be in  SDD thinking this one( Intel 120GB 520 Series Internal Solid-State Drive) but this drive is spec for 6Gb/s Sata port...
Will this drive or any other 6Gb/s drive will work fine on my 3Gb/s port?
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