If you're just looking for an IR thermometer and not an IR camera, they're to be had fairly cheaply. (The one built into my multimeter works fine for what I need it for- it's calibrated perfectly against all the thermostants I've tried.) We have an extremely expensive IR camera somewhere around here too, but I've yet to see it and AFAIK it was never used. Shame, really.
[This message has been edited by SteveFehr (edited 02-14-2007).]