Workflow management: multiple catalogues or one master catalogue?

Hi everyone:
I am new to Lightroom 3.2. I am researching the best way to set up my digital workflow. I have a two-year old Macbook with no firewire (only USB), an external monitor (Cinema Display) and I am thinking of buying two ruggeds or 1 T Seagate external hard drives. I have a few questions about setting up my workflow. I have read differing opinions about whether to have one master catalogue and run that off my external hard drive or create separate catalogues with subfolders for images for different clients and a third option would be to have a master catalogue, a master folder for images, and a series of catalogues that index the master folder of images (if that's possible?). I also want to take into account with whatever approach I use that I only have a USB connection. Some of the files I work with are up to 70 MB and I probably only have 32 G of image files at the present time. I'm sure this will increase with time but I would appreciate any suggestions or best practices that you have found to work in your own workspaces. Thanks so much for your time and counsel!

I think a lot of people would say: ONE CATALOG. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Of course, there are many others who create a catalog for each "job" that they have, so they will have to speak for themselves. I enjoy the simplicity of one catalog, I don't want to have to keep switching catalogs, and by having one catalog, I can search across all my photos (you can't do that with multiple catalogs).
You seem to be implying that there is some relationship between folders and catalogs. Folders do not have to relate to catalogs (although they can if you want them to; but you have a single catalog, its not an issue).
A clarification: your catalog file should go on your fastest disk, usually the internal disk. Your photos can go just about anywhere, including internal, USB or network drives. I'm sure there are many others who have 70MB files on a USB disk (in fact, I do), and I just don't think the speed is an issue in this instance
I strongly recommend you keep your workflow as simple as possible. When the photos come out of the camera, put them in somewhere (a folder name of your choosing), and don't move them again (exception: when you need to move them to another hard disk). It doesn't get any simpler than that. Use Lightroom structures like keywords and metadata to achieve organization; do not use folder structure or file names to achieve organization. Use Lightroom for all your photo management. Use Lightroom for browsing your images. Use Lightroom as much as possible!

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