I also go for the manual option in the main, but I like the convenience of automation and sometimes prefer it. That Bash.org thread I started, for instance, involved a good deal of relatively complex nested tags which, while not difficult to do manually, would very quickly have driven me further round the twist than I already am.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'