Digital BW, The Print

> Maybe I'd run into much less chance of ugly ones if I'd do
> most of that initial burning/doding/leveling/curving in 16-bit?

If you do your tone curves in the scanner driver, it will be done on high
bit data, no matter whether you are getting 8 bit or high bit data out.  My
workflow is to do ALL my tonal corrections in the original scan, and save as
8 bit data, and do NO tonal corrections in PS.