Has anyone switched from Parallels 4 to VM Fusion 3 - What do you think?

I am considering the jump, as I have been really impressed with VM Ware's instructional videos. The product looks solid.
Has anyone else made the jump? What do you think?
Thanks!

I've been playing with them both on the same machine because I had the Fusion 3 beta. My experience has been through accessing Boot Camp.
Both do a fine job of accessing Boot Camp, but I found that Parallels is less of a headache than Fusion because every time you boot in to fusion it asks for a password, and if you are not running as administrator then you are asked for the password several times. If you are no an administrator, and do not know the administrator password then I am not sure how you can use fusion. Parallels does not seem to ask for this, which means you can set Parallels to start up the virtual machine and it does so without trouble.
I did notice that Parallels triggers reactivations of the Microsoft software, which is annoying. I have not tried fusion with Windows 7, so do not know what will happen with that. Interestingly, Parallels works OK with fusion installed as well, but Fusion did not seem to like Parallels. The reason I have both is that I got Fusion 2 with my Macbook and parallels 4 free with a MacUpdate package.
I found that bi-directional copy and paste seemed to work more cleanly in Parallels than Fusion, but I see little or no difference between their general operation. It is hard to tell if there is a speed difference. Parallels does not support AERO on Windows 7, but who cares about that?
The upgrade cost from Fusion 2 to 3 and from Parallels 3 to 4 are both reasonable, but it seems like fusion is $10 less expensive at $39. Those of us in education get it for $19, which means I might pay to upgrade anyway.
I am a long time Fusion user, I switched to Fusion and really liked it, but right now I am also happy enough with Parallels and cannot tell any real difference other than easier startup. One thing that is really nice about fusion, that could take me back is that they have a menu bar icon to access the start menu and it is really slick. Parallels relies on the dock icon and it is flakey.

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