I have been using Photoshop Elements 3. They have version 4 out now but I downgraded enough when I moved to 3. 2 was a better product.

Then again, the stuff I am doing (scan, crop, cut, rotate, resize, save) is not using any software to its potential.

Did your Dell come with Corel Paint Shop Pro? Its also a decent peice of software.

You can get a decent image out of the Epson. It justs takes a while to work through all the settings of the scanner drivers.