Yeah, I learned the hard way, that the order in which you do things is very important - e.g. you definitely want to do any despotting before doing any denoising, because when I had Laserschwert do the denoising on the clips first and then I went in and manually painted out the spots, all the spots now stayed for 3-5 frames instead of one, which was a pain in the ass to paint out manually and I imagine, that it would totally throw any automatic despotter.
And I suppose, you'd want to do the stabilization first too.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I currently don't have any of the new clips yet, so I think I will start experimenting with this, once I get some - I just wanted to get ahead of it.