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As I said in the previous thread that CSflim was so kind to bring up, it's obvious that there is no problem between God's omniscience and our free will. Free will simply means that our decisions are up to us; God knowing what we will do doesn't affect whether or not that decision was up to us any more than my knowing what you will do affects whether or not you have free will. This is simply a pseudo-problem.
Even God's omnipotence doesn't hurt our free will, if he chooses not to use it. The only interesting problem in the area here is, if God *controls* everything, can we still have free will. Try a search for "Molinism" to see the solution I've adopted to this last problem; my posting there is a bit long, so I don't really want to re-type it.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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