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I wanted to just share some thoughts on the wizard, mostly fluff stuff.
If you imagine that the energy of magic is like a river, and that the wizards techniques (read spells) allow him to adjust the flow of that river, then you can imagin a context in which preparation and then casting occur.
Basically, at some point during the day, while studying from their spell book, a wizard builds metaphysical dams in the flow of magic around himself (or herself, but i'll pick him). Then when he needs the spell to actually happen, he reaches in and pushes over the dam (figuratively) allowing the spell to happen.
With this description, prepared spells make sense.
Sorcerors don't build the dams, the dams follow them around. There is a limit to how many dams they can access (spells known) and how many times per day they can be accessed (spells per day) before the sorceror is wiped out.
This still makes sense in the same model.
Metamagic feats allow you to change the damn such that it alters the effects of the spell when it is cast, requiring more input power. Still makes sense.
Magical items that allow more spells per day orrepeated castings (rings of wizardry and perals of power) allow you to build more dams, or to let the energy out of a dam without breaking it down.
Reserve feats would give wizards access to the "spillway" energy of the dams.
All in all, this description really fits the current rules of wizardry, and is very evocative (he he, almost a pun) for story telling.
I guess I am looking for opinions on the description, but I will take additions, comments, accolades, money...