Working on sharpness

I spent some time (well, quite a bit actually) working on some softness issues in my pet gallery. In my initial post after joining, Jim pointed that out, and he was absolutely correct. I reworked the entire gallery, and added some more subjects. I'll post a few of them here besides the link, which is:

http://www.pbase.com/greglynch/

There are a few galleries there; the one for pets is simple to find.

Well, I was going to embed a couple of shots like I've seen in other posts, but that doesn't seem to be working for me, so I attached one file.

Greg, it almost looks like you have the noise settings up high in camera, or run through a noise program.

Julie, which shot or shots do you see that on - the animals gallery, or the people, or the one attachment here? I am shooting with a 40D in all of the animal shots except for the "Time To Go" shot - that was actually one of the last rolls I ever shot in film, on my EOS-3 with ASA400 film. The only shots in the people gallery not using the 40D were the two identical images, one in color and one converted to B&W - that's my wife, BTW, and she needed a quick publicity shot done before I got the 40D - it's done with a Powershot A80.

I went through the 40D menu, and I don't have any of the noise reduction choices enabled except for long exposure, and I didn't use a noise program (although I have one, by Imagenomic). If you let me know which images, I can share what I did PP on them.

Thanks for responding - I'm still learning on this, I guess.