The benefits of gigabit networking -- are they real?

I'm setting up a small network (like 10 machines) in the midst of a much larger corporate environment. Our IT corporate department wants these machines to be connected to their network, but has flat-out stated the network speed will be 100BT, not gigabit ethernet. Mostly because they presumably don't want to upgrade switches, repeaters, wiring and servers.
They claim that even with the intense graphics (ie, 500MB Photoshop files and big InDesign files) and HD video work (mostly Adobe Premiere) we'll be doing, 100BT will be adequate.
Can that possibly be right?
I mean, if big graphics and HD video don't require true gigabit networking, what does?
My proposal, given our expected usage, is Cat6 cabling throughout, gigabit switches, 10,000RPM drives, and gigabit ethernet throughout. I hate to go to battle with the big corporate IT guys if I'm totally wrong, but aren't the benefits of true gigabit networking clearly obvious?
I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially as they pertain to real-world (not theoretical) speed improvements.

My experience is personal, not enterprise IT level, but I have gigabit between my Macs. I use it with Photoshop and video files stored on one Mac and edited on another. The throughput is so high it's almost like using a FireWire hard disk; I hardly notice I'm using networked files. I love gigabit, I love that almost every Mac has it.
I think you are right and your IT dept is wrong. First off, we all know specs are ideal and real world is lower. 100 megabits per second is just 12.5 megabytes per second...if the network is operating at its theoretical limit! Which it won't be. Let's be optimistic and say you'll get 10 megabytes per second. For graphics and video apps, that's horrible, worse than forcing you all to use external USB 2 drives. Of course you'd want gigabit Ethernet. I don't know what your IT dept is smoking. It's just 10 machines. I paid like $50 for my Gigabit switch, and the cables are cheap now.
Have you thought about running a test in front of them at file editing/saving performance between two machines comparing 10/100 and gigabit? It should be a cheap and easy test to run, and I would hope the results would be visibly obvious. I do not think you can expect to edit HD video over 10/100 without wanting to slit your own wrist at some point out of frustration.

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