Welcome to the forum, Carey.
From your post, it seems that when you attended the BWCA courses you've been 'sold' the choice of three WFP systems.
But there's many more to choose from. This is a competitive market and my advice would be to do some more research and shop around.
Why not put a post here asking what the best system is for your requirements?
good words from tosh
of course the BWCA will favour ionics, they are the same company, do they tell you that on the course ?? ? ??
loads of options out to buy
you could even build your own, loads have, they work well and save you ALOT of money,
my advice would be, build your own, stick your redunncy in the bank for when you are building up your round (its slow to start)
<-------------- E.mail me for a link on a DIY build site, just have a look at it and the DIY forum, then you can decide with your eyes open and save THOUSANDS of ££££