Which Groupset?

Has anyone got any experience of the difference, if any, between modern chorus and athena campag groupsets?

Two things:

• Chorus levers are Ultra-Shift, Athena levers are Power-Shift. Only Campagnolo's upmarket levers now allow you to up-shift a handful of sprockets at a time. With Athena, you can only go up one gear per press of the thumb-shifter.
  
• Carbon fibre groupsets are fucking shit. Carbon clearly has a place on bikes where the gains matter, but it is beyond me why Campagnolo insist on using so much carbon on "everyday" groupsets. Earlier in this thread someone even asks about commuting on carbon cranks. Rain and road grime on cranks that come with a warning not to leave them exposed to direct sunlight!
  
  

I'm running 2010 Centaur on two of my bikes: it is pretty, alloy won't break on its own accord, it didn't cost so much that I'd cry if I broke something if I wiped out, and I can go up three gears at a time on the Ultra-Shift levers. If I was choosing a new gruppo I'd be thinking about alloy Athena. I'd cheerfully spend more, but the extra outlay buy you reduced reliability as well as lighter weight.