Second, I'm thinking about signing on to DDI - despite my dislike of the subscription-based approach - for two reasons: The Monster Builder would save a lot of time on my conversion activities and I still like to have a printed monster sheet in front of me when I play. I might dig into the authoring tools as well and see if I couldn't learn something and tune it up for some other games. Beyond that it has sets for Savage Worlds, Shadowrun, and it interfaces with DDI. The character sheet output looks nice too. The Apprentices impressive lack of ability to keep up with their character sheets for most games is also a consideration here. There are some things I want to convert from M&M 2E and software would make it much easier. First, I'm thinking about HeroLab because it seems to be the standard and I could use it for Mutants and Masterminds right now.
