Hi Cindy,
>Compare that to the VFP upgrade price of $349 US with the full packaged >product coming in at $649 US.
I can't seem to find the price list for VFP8 (but then again we are upside down this side of the planet :) If these prices are right then IMO MSDN Professional at $1199 which includes VFP8 and all the other stuff seems to be a very decent option for any professional developer.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.