John, Thanks for the advise. As you probably already know, yes Macs crash. I had mega problems with a recent upgrade to Snow Leopard. I finally did a clean install and everything’s been stable since then. The main reason for the switch was Trojans attacking Windows. Now with BootCamp and Win7 I don’t email or surf. I do that on the Mac side.
In Vegas4+DVD I bought VASST training with Douglas Spotted Eagle. He’s a talented teacher and well organized. I’ll be buying the Absolute series.
I’ll look into the other products you mentioned.
thanks again,
Greg