Thanks for the nice comments everyone! Usually, I have such trouble getting one or two good fireworks shots that I was happily surprised that so many turned out this time! And we were even watching the fireworks in the rain! My only adjustments this time were to not use the flash at all (and I also didn't use any of the low light settings since you have to be so still for those to work!) and I lowered the megapixel setting from 10.0 to 4.9 which seemed to help the speed. Then I just pointed the camera to the sky and kept on snapping. I deleted quite a few duds but for me,that's the beauty of a digital camera! Delete,delete,delete!
Michelle - I didn't use a tripod - too much trouble for me!