Problems with photoshop psd files in Lightroom 2

I've been using Photoshop with raw and jpeg images for years, until just recently i started learning Lightroom 2 by watching the Kelby Training series online. I have learned a ton, but there are some things that i am just not able to figure out and for some reason they have not addressed my issues on Kelby.com.
Here is my list:
1. When i edit my images in lightroom and then click on a specific image to edit it in photoshop because it needs something removed for example, lightroom does not do what Matt Kloskowski on Kelby says lightroom should do. It does not open up a box asking how i want to edit the image. supposedly a box listing these three things should appear: edit a copy with lightroom adjustments, edit a copy, edit the original. I already changed my preferences so that images would be taken into photoshop as PSD files with prophotoRGB, like he said to do. Instead of opening up this box, it just opens the image in photoshop. When i save the image after editing it, it does save it as a _edit-psd, but when i close the image and go back into lightroom, the psd file does not show up. supposedly, the psd file should be stacked right next to the original image and it is not there. when i look at the images in the finder, it shows the psd file.
is there another setting that i need to change?
2. when i want to covert my nef raw files to jpeg for printing and burning dvds for clients, what is the best way to do this? i've done it by exporting to jpeg. but why, when i jpeg, does lightroom not use the jpeg images? for example, when i run a slideshow of a collection of images, it uses the lightroom edited nef files, PLUS, since LR does not show the psd files, the changes i made on photoshop do not show up on the slideshow either! it seems to use the psd files when converting to jpeg, so if i could just figure out a way to use the jpeg images for the slideshow all the edits should be there.do i need to import the jpeg files back into LR as a new collection?
3. when i convert to jpeg using photoshop, there are xmp files. why are there no xmp files with the original images when LR is used? where is all the information that belongs with the RAW images?
ok. i actually have a ton more questions, but i'll start with these for now.
Thank you so much!

Check the destination you have specified in the Import panel. It needs to point to a location that Lightroom can read and more important write files to. Usually the error message (in English) says “files cannot be read” and this really means that LR was unable to copy the files to the destination so then when it tried to import from that destination not file were found to read.

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For all the people like me coming to Aperture with hundreds of Photoshop files, I would like to offer what I've learned so far in this area.
1. If Aperture is importing your psd files but not showing an image, you probably need to change some preferences in PS. Apple has a tech note showing how to set the PS prefs here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302624
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Pick the file, choose "Edit in External Editor." Aperture duplicates the file and opens that in PS. Make some changes, save and return to Aperture. Notice the original master and this new changed version are in a stack. There should be a badge on the changed version indicating it has been edited externally. Here's the trick: Unstack the two images and delete the original master. Now you have only the externally edited master in your Aperture library. If you choose "Edit In External Editor" with this file, Aperture will not duplicate it and send the duplicate to PS, it will send the selected file.
Apple has a useful FAQ on using "Open With External Editor" here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302820

My suspicion is that Aperture is going to try loading the video card VRAM with your image .... 600Mb worth. So, paging in/out of system memory is going to be a royal pain.
Check that you haven't any alpha channels saved, as Aperture will save them but will not composite them.
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Thanks both Andreas and Bob. By the way Bob, have you tried importing the example file that I referred to? As stated earlier this problem does not show up with every PSD file (in my testing I can see that about 50% of my (flat) files shows up as gray (all the files are perfectly OK in Photoshop (CS2) and in Bridge however).
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