Heh... four k for a startup hobby is relatively minor. Have you priced snowmobiles or jetskis?
Nice looking site Dahui. Should be helpful for other new owners. I do have to admit though that the flash front page is annoying to me too.
psst... on the endmill breakage, check
www.mscdirect and order something so you get on their mailing list. They almost always have import endmill sets in their mailers for very reasonable prices. Make good expendable "learn on them" tooling.
Tiger