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Okay, you gurus have been a lot of help. 

Gaussian, I have a pretty good consumer camera (sony dsc-p9 4megapixels).  I get great day pictures and lousy flash pictures.  I've never adjusted the ISO, i'm not really sure what it does even, so I'll give that a go and see if that makes me feel a little better about my purchase.  Also, can I assume that you'd give the go ahead on purchasing Neatimage?

Mindbender, I tried your techniques with pictures under the same conditions and there is indeed noticable improvement.  Destaturating midtones, highpass overlay, this is all good stuff that i've not seen before. 

Thanks to both of you