Kevin:
Your recipe(s) sound great. I have one suggestion for either recipe or for baking turkey's, chicken, etc. Buy some cheese-cloth (Walmart fabric dept, or fabric store. When you're ready to put the bird in the oven for it's final cooking, completely wrap the cheese cloth around it, with melted butter poured over all, and you will not believe the look of the bird when you remove the cheese cloth. It'll look like something from a magazine, beautiful golden color. When I cook a turkey, I do this, and everyone just wants to "look" at the bird because it's such a beautiful color. I have to start carving myself, or others will just look and OOH, AAH, etc.
julieann