Back then, Drive Image was what I preferred, too. I wasn't aware of Acronis yet. I've been using RAID 0 since 2005 so Drive Image would be out of the question for me; also I don't know if Drive Image would handle today's drive sizes.
Out of curiosity, do you know what it's drive size limits are?
Acronis definitely has quirks, but although I haven't experimented that much nor tried Ghost again since v9, overall I still like Acronis best.
I've been trying the relatively new Acronis Backup and Recovery Workstation for the past week. I like it so far. They FINALLY got away from the annoying (to me) wizard interface where you have to go through every page clicking Next just to get to the page you want to change something on (the comment, for example).
Also there's no more analyzing your drives when it starts up causing such a delay at least with all my partitions and drives.
I haven't tried the brand new Acronis True Image 2010 yet. Anyone else?