Well, I'm talking about later in the game. I'm now earning GP from S level chocobo races before heading to Junon to start the large materia chase.

Barret and Tifa have their lv. 4 LB's, and I have indeed been hanging around in the forest outside Mideel.

My aim for this playthrough is to get every player at 255 stats. I know this is unecessary, but it's just for the hell of it...I won't finish by the time XII gets to my local gamestop, anyway. So it will probably be a long while before I complete it.

With XII, I've decided to start a notebook. I'm going to attempt to write my own walkthrough...so that will probably tkae some time.

Anyway, thanks for the help everyone. It's amazing that although I've played VII enough to know everything there is to know about it, I continue to learn new things....