why in hell would you work in rgb if your product outputs in cmyk? i can't grasp this concept. Reinman knows it all. Listen kids.

Reinman is indeed wise. BUT he missed the tidbit that it was the "creative type" who doesn't know her ass from her elbow. Total reversal of the what I've come to see as the "norm".

That is where the whole thing about excepted mediocrity comes in to play. If you are not finishing your work in CMYK (final color, sharpening, GCR vs UCR on an image by image basis) than the best you can hope for is dependent on a profile made by someone who knows way less about color reproduction than an average retoucher. Profiles are great if all you ever want is mediocre.

She looks a bit like a brunette version of Monica Potter with a better body.

I agree!

I spend a lot of time on each individual image to be sure the colors are correct.
Sure I could take the easy way out and covert it to a print ready pdf, but then I would be taking a chance having the colors off. My company is very strict with their corporate colors
and I have found that the Pantones do shift somewhat when using pdf profiles.

I am not saying that I know it all when it comes to design, but when you work on it each and everyday you learn what works and what doesn't.