Any Guitarists Using MacSongTool's Tone Heaven settings?

lwilliam mentioned these Guitar Amp Pro settings in another thread but I thought I should start a new one just about these.
Is anyone using these settings? The demos sound very good but I'm wondering if they are as good as the demos, and how they stack up against the ones in Logic Studio.
You can check them out at:
http://www.macsongtools.com/MacSongTools/Tone%20Heaven%20Vol%201.html

Well, yeah, no argument there.
My question is do the settings sound like the songs they are supposed to reproduce. Given a good guitar and a good enough interface of course.
My reason for asking is this: I like to fool around with presets etc. but I also get together occasionally with friends and we play classic songs: Police, Rush, Hendrix, etc. It would be so handy to be able to call up the settings from MainStage and then just play. It would be worth the $20 just not to have to figure out all the settings for songs that we do, assuming that I could.
So for me it's just a question of how well they nailed the sounds. Anybody know?

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{quote:title=Jan Voortwist wrote:}>
1. Are you still using your own guitar amp or are you directly plugging into the PA?{quote}
When I use MS, I go direct to the PA, usually my own powered monitors. For short gigs, I often use my Peterson.
{quote} 2. Do you only use the Logic/Mainstage amps/fx or do you still prefer "the real thing" with fx or amps? {quote}
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2b. Are there any type of fx you don't like on Logic/MS? Are you using a real one for that (so let's say for instance a crybaby wah instead of a midi expression pedal which controls the Logic/MS one)?
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{quote}5. Do you use multiple banks. For example one bank for every** song or just one bank with one pedalboard for the whole set?{quote}
** did you mean "each" here?
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