Dear prayboy,
It's clear from the wisdom expressed in these forgoing posts, and this is also backed up by references to technical recommendations from various sources, that aircraft in RVSM need to use reduced climb and descent rates to avoid TCAS TA's/RA's. People have adopted 1000FPM as the norm it would seem, and indeed in one of my previous companies this was the figure quoted in the operations manual. Your trainer was correct all along.
Would it be impolite to suggest it may not be career enhancing trying to prove your trainer may not be correct?
If you had spent as much time reading the aircraft technical reference manual as you have trying to prove this trainer wrong, you might be a trainer yourself..