Now that the proper resting place for Alex's balls has been settled, I will add that I use Photoshop Elements and find it to be excellent.

Very full featured (BTW - buy a book of instructions you like for it). Has way more than an average 'crop it, touch it up, kill the old red eye" needs. Unless you are going to become a power user, it has waaayyy more than enough.

Does a nice job of cleaning up / restoring older photos you scan it as well.

Thanks for the original input on this one Alex.