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I would concur with most of what everyone else said...
Unique will serve you well in the handgun calibers you are loading for, for moderate velocity loads. If you want Magnum performance, look at W296.
I would dump the powder out in the flowerbed or yard... I don't use powder that I don't know where it came from or how it was stored/handled. Same with primers.
The standard for balance scales is the RCBS 5-0-5 (actually made by Ohaus.) Worth every penny.
The Partner press is pretty small; I have the RS3, which I think is the next step up. It's barely big enough for some of the cartridges I resize (.30-06 and .348WCF come to mind) but it soldiers on even after 25 years of use and abuse. The Partner will work very well for your handgun loads; if you start to load a lot of bottleneck rifle cartridges, I would start looking for something a little bigger.
As another poster mentioned... read those manuals! I have 5 of them to cross-reference my loading data, they are worth their weight in gold (or at least gunpowder!)
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