Indesign vs Illustrator for packaging

what are your thoughts?
i'm pro illustrator because it's what i've always used, and most people use it in my country. Our IT guys keep suggesting we must change to indesign. There are a few annoying things about using indesign for packaging. 1. there is no way to collect links in illustrator. 2. Indesign has no keyline mode like illustrator. 3. When you make a box and add a stroke or take a stroke away the box dimensions change.

InDesign CS 4 and 5 work the same as Illustrator as far as strokes. ID takes lots of features from ID but some of the features in ID's stroke panel are not worth much for instance their select of preset strokes, they look fine when zoomed out but take a close look zoomed in and they stink in the corners and the diagonal line borders go the wrong way on the vertical returns.
Here is the stroke alignments.
Go to the Illustrator Script Forum they may have this available I think this was an optional script in either CS 2 or 3 I do not see it any more.
This one does a package it is called Package
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?s=5&o=desc&exc=17&cat=210&event=productHom e&l=%2D1&from=3
There are others on the exchange as well.
I point out this script is by what looks like a russian user. But i t has a fair amount of downloads and good ratings.
More powerful at a cost is Worker 72a's Scoop does even more like extracts embedded images and then I believe links them for you. And fonts of course.
http://www.worker72a.com/72a_Pages/CS3_Plug-ins.htm#SCP
Yes I do not know if these work with CS5 as of yet.

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