Turning the corner with Aperture. Performace improved, a few issues remain

First off, let me apologize for being a harsh SOB early on.
I have made improvements in my Aperture understanding and workflow. My machine is a dual 2 GHz(not dual core) G5, that HAD the stock Radeon 9600 card, 2 GB RAM, and the Aperture library is on a second 250 GB SATA internal drive and vaulting goes out to a Lacie D2 500 GB external FW800 disk.
After reading this and other boards, I decided to upgrade my video card to the X 800XT which made my Aperture experience very snappy and in turn me happy(er). I have yet to try overclocking the card(with software) to see if I get a further perfomance bump.
Another thing that has improved my experience is adding another display. This was cheap for me as I still have my four year old 17" Apple Studio Display that came with my DP 800 G4. I really need to eBay that!
Calibrating that display with my 20" was a snap with a Spyder2PRO.
Faster graphics and an extra screen has made a big difference in my workflow with being able to have a separate display for viewing/adjusting/cropping and doing compares.
THAT said, improvements that are still needed:
Speeding up the jpg generation(exporting and web pages)
--Sharpening doubles the time to export, this can be an issue on weddings with 500-600 proofs
Posterizing/loss of gradients of shadow areas
Output from D2X NEFS is chock full of aliasing(ya OS update for that)
More templates for web, contact sheets, and books, books really need shadow/glow effects as well
More book sizes, PLEASE!
Integration with other pro labs like WhiteHouse Color, Kodak's prices are way out of line with their competitors
11x14 not offered for ordering
More printing options similar to CS2 picture packages
So, I am turning the corner with Aperture and looking forward to the release of 10.4.4 and Aperture 1.XX
-John

Dual monitors - I'm running a 22" CRT as the main monitor with a 20" Cinema Display as the secondary monitor, and found for most purposes that the best combination is to have the main monitor set up as 'multi' but without the viewer pane showing, and the secondary monitor set up as 'span' - any thumbnails you select on the main monitor are shown on the secondary monitor, leaving you lots of space to see big thumbnails.
Obviously for books and web galleries you need to show the viewer pane (V), but you still get to see selected images large on the secondary screen.
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