Data from 1940 and more recent US censuses

I posted over a year ago about how to obtain census data for specific families in the 1940 and more recent US census data.

The blog post is at http://randysmusings.blogspot.com/2006/11/obtain-data-from-1940-and-later-census.html. The links still work and the fee is the same amount of money as a year ago. Unfortunately, the link to Bill Dollarhide's "Census Book" doesn't work any longer. [See the UPDATE below]

Has anybody actually tried requesting these census records? If so, what was the response time and the quality of the results?

The alternative is, of course, to wait until 2012 when the 1940 census should be available online. I wonder which commercial genealogy company will get the rights to digitize and index the 1940 census? Will it be AncesFootLink.com by then?

UPDATED 1/28: In Comments, cm said that the Bill Dollarhide Census book IS still available online, but you have to use this method to obtain it:

1. Logon to HeritageQuest with your participating public library card number
2. Select “Search Census”
3. Select “Browse”
4. Select “Help with the Federal Census”

Yep - that works. Thanks, cm!!