@Ron Lugge - don't worry - if you're pile of things to read isn't huge and overflowing you're not working hard enough 
@LDiCesare - I'm not saying pre-compiled headers are a win in every case - the scenario you talk about is one were I wouldn't use a pre-compiled header. However when a lot of your C++ files are including, say, Windows.h and a bunch of system / STL headers then there can be massive time savings using pre-compiled headers. I've seen minute long compiles go down to just a few seconds this way.
