Re: Small pair preflop
Against the opponent you described, this is the clearest example of "set it or forget it" there could possibly be. And as Tyler said above, that's why you're calling the raise preflop--your immediate odds of flopping a set (or open-ended straight draw) plus the implied odds you'll get in the form of bets collected postflop are more than enough to justify the call. It's the same basic principle that you use when calling a raise in the big blind with suited connectors in a multi-way pot, or completing from the small blind with suited anything after several limpers: you know you don't have the best hand now, but since you'll be folding to a flop bet whenever you don't connect & will be extracting many bets postflop when you, you call.
Incidentally, it is very rarely correct to fold to a single raise preflop after putting in one (or more) bets in limit hold'em.
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