I'm more confused than ever now! I decided that I would go for a Juki 2010, which was my original plan when I bouth the Juki F600 (buy the first one and get the second if I really thought I would be doing more FMQ. I called a shop yesterday, who aren't Juki dealers, and they said that they had 2 Juki 2010s in for repair with solonoid problems, and that Juki Canada won't help them, they have to go through Juki USA. So that makes me a little nervous.
I'm glad to hear that people are happy FMQ with the Janome 8900. It was priced way out of my range last year, but this deal is so good, and I like that the previous owner already knows that this one is not a "lemon".
I'm testing out my friend's Pfaff Permormance 5.0 today. It's a fabulous (or pfabulous, as the Pfaff owners say) machine, but it is $600 more than the Janome deal.
Visiting Alaska is definately on my schedule for this summer - the fabric shops there are excellent!