Dede: Welcome to the board!! Nice to meet you and hope to hear more from ya!

I've seen several threads regarding saddles and the best piece of advice I've seen so far is: check the return policy with your LBS on saddles. Nothing worse then paying for a saddle and then hating it. I try to stop by my LBS middle of the day during the week - they're usually really slow then and love the chance to chat/help/work with me. You can put the saddle on yourself - and there's nothing like riding a bike that YOU did the work on.