Alfraid,
The shot looks far worse that it was, there was really no hard contact. But I know what you mean, it does look painful.
Asher,
Thanks for the kind words. I'm still such a newbie that I am not sure what the cause is. There are so many firsts in these shots, first time with camera, first time with lens, first time with PSE, first time with RAW, first time with Flickr....etc.
Here is basically what I did. Shot in RAW, processed in ACR/PSE6. Basically I did all my processing in ACR and only cropped and resized in PSE. Uploaded the shots to Flickr and then linked to the post.
Either I messed up with the resizing somehow, or I need to learn more about what Flickr is doing to the files. Of course it could be that I just went too far with ACR to begin with, but that is why I am here, to learn ;-)