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Intuit's Quicken Premier 2008 personal finance software, even though its straight-out-of-1998 interface frustrates the heck out of me, gives me comfort that I won't be living in a refrigerator box five years after I retire. I love that it can download transactions automatically; I hate that it can't download transactions from many organizations or for many types of accounts (for example, 403b plans and 529 plans). But once I've entered all those tiny transactions, I really know how much I've got--and how far I still have to go. For more, read our review of Quicken Home & Business 2008, which is similar to the Premier version but also adds business tracking tools.

--Alan Stafford, executive editor