Peter - thank you so much - this post and your other post provides me with a much clearer picture and the information I need to make the best decision for our institution. I cannot thank you enough - for taking the time to write out a thoughtful and informative response.
We are a new university and just moving into a blended learning course design. We are growing rapidly - we will more than double our current faculty numbers in Fall 2011!. So - knowing the number of new fauclty and that we have many faculty who are new to Moodle and blended learning - we have decided to wait on Moodle 2.0. We are also using a few of the modules which are not currently working in 2.0. So I think it is best that we wait (I would love to have the new HTML editor with spell check) - and make our first priority getting Moodle to link and communicate with our Banner system.
Thank you again - Nancy K.