[font color=\'#000000\']I strongly disagree that scanning at max resolution is a waste of time! What's a waste of time is scanning at a low resolution once for web posting, then deciding that you want to print it and scanning it again at higher resolution, then deciding later that you'd like to print it larger and scanning it a third time for that, then someone wants a copy of it at a different print size, which entails rescanning again...you get the idea! Better to scan it once at max resolution to get the best scan you can (for archiving purposes if nothing else), and quickly adjusting it later in PS for whatever it is you want to do with it at the time.
Also, if you're concerned about noise, I believe that scanning at a substantially higher resolution than the resolution of the final output will reduce the amount of scanner-induced pixel noise, since you're averaging over a number of scan pixels to obtain one output pixel.
Lisa[/font]