I agree whole heartedly there. If you can get Cleaner XL to work on XP SP2, use it. That program's golden!! Depending on what I am doing, I jump back and forth in Premiere & Prem Pro. I like them both, Pro's better for a lot of reasons, but just haven't been able to completely phase out 6.0 for some things.
They are both good for just about anything you need or want to do, easy to use. Drawback w/ 6.0's the stability. Sometimes will crash for now reason.
As for the WMV, I do not use that format, so I honestly can't help you there. I use code website/clip final product in either xvid/divx depending. Most of the time it's divx because it gives me the best quality (imho) for the clips. I'e tried all formats, and just prefer it. Not to say it's nessesarily the best.
After I pull from DV, I always keep the master copy as a DV AVI. Again, this is my preference in comparison to MPG, or some other format. I think it gives the best quality when I burn them to DVD. I've tinkered with some of the others some time ago, but just have not found anything that has such a remarkable difference to change.
From what I've heard, all programs mentioned are good. A lot of it just depends on what you are trying to do, ease of use, comfortablity with it, used to (old schoolers) and so on.
