I am thinjing looking at buying new Tajima Pulse embroidery software. Originally I was looking at version 14 to work with Adobe Illustrator which I already own. When I was contacted by a dealer I was told the Illustrator Extreme is 2900 usd but I would be able to buy verison Maestro for 4800 usd. Keep in mind this is after a trade and discount in. So my questions are as follows. First is it worth the difference to bump up to the Maestro version? Also how good are the conversions from Illustrator vector's file (ai, eps and also corel files) to a embroidery out? Also this soft have the auto digitizing module for bitmaps. (free) value. Also any other materials and opinions would be appreciated.