RE: carbon arrows
Easton's AXIS and Beman's Black Max arrows with H.I.T. are hard to beat. I've heard a lot of good stuff about Carbon Force's Radial XWeave too. Carbon Express has a similar arrow, Maxima or somethin' like that. I like the Easton/Beman ones mostly because of HIT, but also because, unlike Carbon Express, they're made here in the US. About the same price as XX78's too.