Hi thewhiz - just read your post!
I ain't knocking datarescue, I am sayin that it's bloody expensive, too expensive for student's. At least MS & others give some allowance to student's.
As for using it, no I never have and probably never will. I read so much about it and the number of "plugins" that OTHER people have to write for it so that it will work "correctly" tells me that it just ain't worth it.
It seem's strange that this is your first post on this board and I don't recollect your name from RCE, just maybe you work for datarescue or have some affiliation with them???
/hobferret