Stripping/silhouette/masking/transparency etc.

Hello,
I'm doing a photo shoot on white with the intention to give the client silos. I know basic masking, but I've never had to delivered stripped images before. To make matters difficult, many of the objects will be neutral colored jewelry against white, selective focus, with a soft shadow included. In other words, low contrast, neutral colored edges against white.
1. Is there a recommended technique or plug in for this brand of challenge?
2. Which format is the best way to deliver the final product to the client? Should they get a flat TIFF with a transparent background? (I never liked the look of that checkerboard background myself.) Or should I give them a white background and convert my mask to a clipping path?
Any and all advice is most appreciated.
Intel Mac OS 10.5.4, CS3

I think a tool which might be of great value (which I seem to pitch a great deal) is Peel Off White. I'm imagining that you want your objects with shadow to be available for placement on other images or backgrounds without any fringing or strange artifacts. I also imagine you want the soft shadow to be placed with the object image. To do that I'd create a hard selection of the object photographed, inverse it and run Peel off White (on a floating layer not the Background). Then I'd take a look at the result on a couple of other backgrounds to see how it looked. Depending how pure your white background might be to start with, you might select the object contract the selection by a pixel or three and run POW to make 'anti-aliased' edges. Anyway, here's Peel Off White...
http://www.bergdesign.com/plugins/
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