I'm with Nicole - iPhoto does understand and manipulates RAW files (I believe it uses the same OS X internal libraries as Aperture). In iPhoto preferences you can set up iPhoto to use external editors such as CS3, and you can also force it to edit RAWs in the external editor. So you can actually use both quite easily.
I imagine that iPhoto will be fine for basic post-processing on images, and more elaborate PP can be accomplished in CS3/Aperture/Lightroom.
Cheers Gav
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