TO answer your ND question, a lot of people (including myself) have gone with a Variable ND filter such as the Fader or LCW. They basically give you the same feeling as Irising up or down on a video camera.
I had an issue when I first did it with textedit, and the people that posted the hack said to use a real code editor. But if it works with textedit thats cool but if you are having trouble try my recommendation.
yeah, got the 60D got it for $900 with no lens and sold the T2i to my son so I gave him a little bit of a deal. The $100 off is what got me to make the jump.
[Zane Barker]“You cannot re compress a project file,”
No but you should ZIP (archive) it before you send project files. This is more of bundling them then making them smaller.