I'll be the one to ask the idiot question:

When is it advantageous to use a table variable? Since I started in Version 7, when they didn't exist, I just have never bothered to use one yet. When I need a temp table, I've never felt constrained by it - you can call another SP and let it reference your temp table which is what I thought was the big deal with table variables. You can't pass a table variable into a SP from ADO (now THAT would be cool).