will do RB, i like the sound of that - *free* is the magic word of course
Paul, thats a classic with the google adds

seek and ye shall find, or it'll find you?
i will say, i swapped over to my other fresh 320 GB HD with mac OS 10.4.8 on it, from which it seems to be taking forever for me to move over too from current one loaded with the old 10.3.9

, its like moving house, traumatic, and i remembered that 'iphoto' (photo/image editing/browsing proggy the comes as part of the OS) has been able to deal with RAWs since 10.4.4 , cant do much editing with it worst luck, but can convert to 16bit TIFF with it, in batches too, thats about all it does -
i bet the new vista one does the same, at a wild guess