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Well you can also think of it this way. There are always new 3D games coming out and sometimes the new games do not work with the newest drivers for some reason or another, and its better if ATI released a driver every month or so, so that their latest drivers work with the newest games, and...
I have done this before on one of my friends 9800Pros and got it to go to 9800XT speeds, with no problems at all. But yeah it takes a little more knownledge than the average computer person knows :p
If you are brave enough you can make a copy of your BIOS and use a program (can't think of the name) and set the speeds you want to OC it to in it, and reflash with the new BIOS. That way you don't have to worry about a program running at startup to OC your video card.