With all the questions on stitching, and since pictures are worth thousands of words, I thought I'd post an illustrated example of CS3's new capabilities.
Here are four frames captured by just leveling the camera on my tripod and panning these four frames. It's not a great image, but rather chosen to show how well CS3 automatically handles a difficult stitch. Note that I converted raw images to these small jpegs and the quality of the raw stitch is incredible, though difficult to show on the web with these small jpegs. Also note that I did NO tweaking to the images before or after the stitch and no adjustment of the final stitch or seams; these are merged "as-shot":
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