RE: decision to use or not use an rman catalog?

No extra risk with rman that I'm aware of. Turn the controlfile autobackup option on and the separate backups will be taken for you automatically and in a special format that makes it very easy for rman to locate the backup with no prior knowledge of it.

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is there a bigger risk when using rman in anyway?  

Do I need to make seperate backups of the control files since I would be using RMAN without the recovery catalog?

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