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PS - BTW, My layer stack couldn't have been simpler.  It consisted of nothing more than the original (at the very bottom of the stack), and a bunch of adjustment layers stacked on top of it.  Never once did I turn the adjustments into an ordinary pixel-based layer.  The advantage of doing it this way is that often the various efx interact visually with each other, and one needs to compensate for this once all the efx are in place.  Using only adjustment layers, there's absolutely no problem to go to one of the adjustment layers, move a slider or two, and immediately see the effect on the overall image.  In contrast, if you bake in your adjustments to actual pixel layers, repeatedly applying efx in the process of tweaking it to optimizing the overall look almost always results in a reduction of quality.

Tom