Wacom Tablet Questions/Reviews

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Ok, who in here has purchased a Wacom (or simular) tablet, and what did you think of them. The one I was looking at getting probably a bit after christmas is the 6x11 Intuos for Win XP for use with Photoshop CS2, and a few other things.

Anyone have any bad experiances, do they work just like you'd think they should, are they hard to deal with, etc. The big reasons (among many others) for me to get one is because I've always like drawing, and I hate paper, and I very much dislike led pencils, so im hoping with this, I could get back into it a bit with Photoshop, also I figured it would make a good way to do some quick illistrations when I'm trying to show someone over the net something (such as a website layout or just anything that could be quickly explained with a picture), I also do my websites, so I would also be using it to create new graphics/interface, etc for my websites and applications alike. Do you all think this tablet that I'm looking at would be suitable for this? I also heard (on thier website) you can edit HTML, and other text with the tablet, is this very easy to do, worth even trying to do?

PS: Since the tablet comes with a mouse, do you HAVE to use thier mouse, or can you still use your own mouse?