Using this Plextor, the much more intuitive AG interface, and its other small features, were enough for me to pay for it and skip over all the free software available, including EAC. I always do recommend EAC for someone who wants a free product that will work well with drives that don't have their own very high quality jitter correction.
BTW, I posted quite a bit to the AG forum and was quite helpful. I know that the regulars there are also very helpful, so maybe you caught someone on a bad day.
You can't compare any forum to this one though. I don't think an equal exists anywhere for any topic. In here, even if most of the database was wiped out, as long as Tony's user account remained, you'd pretty much still be able to get an answer to everything. :) Hehe.
Bruno.