Scanning lots of photos - ideas?

I'm looking to scan a ton of old family photos. One scanner, the Kodak i1210, got a great write-up in the WSJ in early January. Here is a Consumer Reports blog post on it (I don't think he's right about it not being available to consumers):
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2007/03/thekillershoe.html
I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this or any other scanner that can easily scan large amounts of photos. Thoughts?

We had a whole tub of family heirloom photos I scanned 2 winters ago. Many were from the 1910s and 1920s. I ended up with 1200 scanned photos in my computer using 7.5GB of space. I recommend a setup like this:
1) Scanner software:
Vuescan: http://hamrick.com/
Vuescan works with virtually all scanners made so you can ignore crappy proprietary software. Vuescan will be the same software regardless of high-end rented scanners or your old HP flatbed. It does cost $50, but for a big job like yours it is worth the money. It does have batch functions so scanning production style is easy.
2) Scanner:
I rented a Nikon Coolscan scanner for the old celluloid exposures, but for prints you are on your own. My sister had an old AGFA scanner that was excellent quality and was able to scan at 1200dpi. Keep in mind that old-timey prints are extremely high density and can be scanned at 900 or 1200 dpi for archival quality. You do want a good scanner for that.
3) Image software:
Graphic Converter: http://lemkesoft.de/
GC is the best out there. Batch functions for fast easy conversion from TIFF to JPG, a cool image browser and EXIF editing for your data fields. Invest in it and you won't regret it.

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When I look at the photos, some have boxes around the faces but most do not. It skipped even extremely clear, front view, unobstructed faces.
I took the advice of others here and deleted the "faces" files within the iPhoto package and restarted. Again the scan was really fast but flawed - I saw the same result with lots of photos seemingly skipped.
I verified by taking some photos that had NO face recognized (high quality - closeup, unobstructed front view of a child). I exported them, then re-imported into iPhoto. On importing, it did find all the faces.
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I see other people here are seeing the same behavior. Comforting to know that I'm not alone, but VERY frustrating. I don't want to take days and days to draw my own boxes around faces if there's a chance that Apple will release a fix for this.

My initial scan failed (as in not one single face box inserted). I deleted the files and started it over, and it seemed to work okay. No, it didn't get every face, but it did quite a few.
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Some has slow process when a large number of photos are available but I think it's most related to their OS configuration ? Actually it would be a good idea to "optimize" the LR configuration : good RAM value is 4 Gb, memory cache have to be as large as possible, HD's (not all on same disk : system and pictures), SSD and/or RAID aso.. Minimum values indicated by Adobe are really the VERY LOWEST to use. And as other already told : optimize your catalog regularly.
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Scan in mutiple photos in one file, can I crop multiple photos...

at same time?
I don't know how to scan multiple photos as distinct file. I scan 5-6 pics it comes out at one file that I import into iPhoto. While it's very easy to crop each photo out of the file, I have to import the file as many times as there are photos
to crop.
I hope I've been clear. Is there a smarter way to work. I don't see a way to scan
the 5-6 pics as different files in my scanner software.
Thanks

Joshua:
Vuescan is a 3rd party scanning application which can do batch scanning but is a little more difficult to set up. It works with most scanners.
If you have a Canon scanner you can scan in multiple photos at one time and have the scanner software crop, not as close as I'd like, each one individually and present to you in the editor of your choice or the one that comes with it.
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http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00DH2T
http://www.superwarehouse.com/HPAutomatic_Photo_Feeder_for_Scanjet_4570CXi,_5500C,5500CXi/C9926A/p/142116
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=348125
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