I think you just helped me make up my mind to finally pull out of Fotolia.

The problem (for me) is a bit that the income share from FT is on the rise, and that from DT is going down. Money doesn't smell. Of course Randy is right, but there is nothing you can do about it, in a market where new (and good) image suppliers pop up every second.

A sale every 2-3 days, starting half March. All subs or XS till now.
Update: no sales anymore since April 6.

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I do have a D200 with some Nikon and some Sigma lenses which i can control relatively good in pp and i am not asking for.

I shot with a D200 and a Sigma lens till October 2009. The CA reduction in the RAW works fine in Photoshop, but you have to manipulate the slider manually.

Total earnings 1/09 - 2/10

An update:
These are my DT earnings for April till now. RPD 0.4$ (never been so low in a 6-days period). Even 123RF made me more this month, not to mention IS and SS of course. No comment...

I never had a rejection on IS for shoot description but I address content, rather than technique (studio, isolated). For instance: various medical and business concepts in professional wear, emotions and portraits in studio, urban fashion outdoors in casual poses.

From the (future) hidden referral Stossip blog in 2012:

The past year 2011 certainly won't go unnoticed in this first decade of microstock. The year started with a bang in what was quickly nicknamed as the Nordic Cataclysm last January, when Crestock, and YaYmicro/MostPhotos closed doors just a few days apart.
That Crestock was run only by Judge Ross for the last few years was a public secret, but nobody could foresee her untimely death when stumbling over her wig, she smashed into a sharp projection of her vintage Singer sewing machine.
YaYmicro, as we know, joined forces with Mostphotos end of 2010 when its Norwegian government grant ran out, and was quickly acquired by the mysterious third party buyer that turned out to be the Finland-based Subscription Claus. But when they took their new offshore operation (called LeastPhotos) a bit too literal and their rusted ferry with servers was hijacked by Somali pirates near Zanzibar,  they were - obviously - out of business.

Nothing of the sort, though, what happened right after the summer of 2011. It was already clear near the end of 2010 that Dreamstime would run into problems with their "no similars" policy and adding 15 more levels, where level 20 images would cost 999 credits. When they finally reached the milestone of 15 million images online end of 2010, all possible images in the world were already there and additions could only be similars, thus effectively exposing their Achilles heel.
Fotolia on the other hand realized that their "aesthetic" images sold less than their appalling ones that slipped through by a rogue Elbonian reviewer and they'd hit the glass wall too. Banning about 20,000 unaesthetic contributors didn't help also (advise: never upload your mugshot to sites!).

Trying to achieve synergy and break into new markets (the vast demand for unaesthetic similar images), in a bold move, Dreamstime and Fotolia decided to join forces at the summit on Mt.Olympus in Greece, with Jupiter and Zeus advising and Elena from Featurepics as the Delphi Oracle. The mutual acquisition sums involved in founding Dreamolian have been kept confidential, but industry watchers notice that Achilles is currently shooting with a Hasselblad H4D-240 and Chad drives around in a Maserati Barchetta V8 ragtop.
As a relative detail in the wake of this major event, we had to deplore the foreclosure of Featurepics when Elena had to pawn her servers to keep paying her Gourmet Gold Casseroles cat food.

Compared to these breathtaking changes in the microstock world, iStockphoto held up very well, considering they came in the news very unfavorably with the violent siege of their headquarters by a mob of exclusives dressed up like Elizabethan peasants with too roughly feathered forks and maces, demanding the removal of their images from Thinkstock.
That holding company Getty acquired 123RF went almost unnoticed in the turmoil, as well John of Caster cutting himself on the new razor sharp search algorithm were Yuri Arcurs and Warren are always in front by design. He is still in intensive care being stitched up as we speak, and we we wish him well!

2011, a year that won't be forgotten easily. 

do you mean Lightroom is for amateurs? Sounds like you where using it as a photoshop replacement, something its not (and where never meant to be)

Not at all. I know a group of professional photographers that use it all the time. But they are not stockers: events, glamor, weddings, assignments. Last year I was a few days at a GTG/shoot days and I saw them working with Lightroom. It is fast and gives good results probably for prints. But when I looked at some result images (pumped up for under-exposure) in Photoshop, it was ridden with noise. It would never get accepted anywhere on microstock. The remark of them was that a good photo "needs some noise". I just concluded for myself that Lightroom might be a great tool for a fast work flow for event photographers, but it does too many things out-of-control for microstock. Of course I might be totally wrong!

For the same reason I don't like to rely on third-party software/databases for uploading/tracking. What if the database gets corrupt, the third party stops operation or fails on solving bugs? You're helpless.

What I use is a simple Excel spreadsheet: batch numbers in the rows, agents in the columns, upload date in the cells. Every batch is 10 images. The only thing that matters is whether it's uploaded or not. I don't care for rejections, since how would that benefit me? I certainly won't reprocess since that time can better be used to make new shots.

I'd appreciate any advice from anyone that has tried using a laptop for microstock processing/submissions.

I do it all the time when I'm in Europe (1/3 of the time) since I have more time there to post-process. I have a HP Pavillion Duo Centrino, NVidia, 15" for the past 2 years. It doesn't sound "professional" but it works fine for me. The caveats are: use it on a proper table so you can keep a good viewing angle comfortably (hotel tables are bad, laps are worse), don't use it on battery, have a top-quality wireless mouse, use it in very low ambient light.
If it's for weight-critical travel (plane, backpacking) don't go for "the best" and "the biggest" (= the heaviest), and... remove the battery: a battery is relatively heavy, wears out after 1.5 years and dims the screen. Buy a universal plug, so you can use it everywhere in the world in airport lounges etc...
I can see black clippings as well as on my desktop Samsung Syncmaster. Just take some time to calibrate the screen: I have a list of tools here (scroll down till article bottom).

One of the reasons I bought the  mk II.... and I use ONLY Canon glass.

As Larry said, use the Digital Photo Professional that comes with the cam, and that corrects CA in the RAW. If you use Canon lenses, it will address the CA and vignetting even automatically.