To those who say they cant get on with compacts, I too was like that at first, but they are ridden differently. With a standard chainset, you tend to ride on the 39 or 42 mostly and use the outer ring for fast work. With a compact, you ride the outer ring mostly and use the inner only for those meaty hills.
What puts me off standard chainsets is that modern cassettes all start with a 11 or 12 sprocket, so coupled with a 52-or 53, im carrying a couple of gears that never get used. The last time I needed something bigger than 48x12 was descending into Bourg from the Galibier