I'd suggest the purchase of a big, high-quality magnifying glass. It makes the nits a lot easier to see. If you're out in the sunlight, you can also burn 'em to death!
Jerry
Tim will know what I am talking about but when I read about the "nits", A flash came into my mind where Warren Foster (wdoftexas) was telling someone he thought they were "trying to separate the fly [censored] from the pepper".
