Unless you enjoy spending multiple evenings sifting through a single day's photos and tweaking to suit, you're unlikely to enjoy shooting in RAW mode. Clunky, HUGE files, lousy vendor software, and only a tiny unnoticeable improvement in MOST images.

Third party software can help (a lot), but that's extra money that could be used for better lenses or other toys.

I'm a fanatic, but I use .JPG exclusively with my D60 -- tried RAW, but it just ain't feasible for me yet -- I prefer spending more time on other activities, thanks, than fiddling with MS-specific conversion software.

Cheers