Out of curiousity, which is a better buy/bang for the buck? I know they are for different purposes, but considering they are for nearly the same price I am curious on which program I should purchase first. I hear good things about both, but most people use Zennoposter pro and AMR seems to have problems recently

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Edit: I have done tons of research and used the search button, but there's not much info on the lite version and I wanted more recent feedback. Thanks

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There are pros and cons with each.
AMR works "out of the box" - you turn it on - put in an article and an email address - and off it goes.
Failure rates are a lot higher than 12 months ago, but if it'ssecond tierlinks you are after it does the job just fine. If you run with 10,000 sites, you'll lose 75% in total die to sign up failure, submission failure and the site not approving a submitted article.
That's still 2500 links for 20 minutes of your time.
Zenno is powerful, you can buy some templates and "dissect them" early in your time with it to see how they work. The community is tight - Zennoposter scripts can only be used by other ZP regisatered users, so no-where gets that spammed.
HOWEVER - The pro version costs almost 4x AMR, if you do09 not have previous coding experience then the learning curve can be a little steep.
I took a solid 8 hour day to get to grips with it, and my PhD is in information systems and included a SHIT LOAD of coding.
Weeks later I was still visiting the forums for areas where I needed clarification. The info seems mostly translated into english by one of those auto tools like Alta Vista - and subsequently is pretty hard to read and understand sometimes. People have made vids though that really help.
Me - I'd get both. I'd like to think that some links are being made while I learn and come to grips with a tool like this.
ALTERNATIVES.
1) Get a Magic Submitter sub. It's VERY lightweight as far as coding goes, but you can be adding templates in about 5 minutes. (of course it is a monthly sub)
2) Get Sick Submitter with a couple of well maintained packets (there are, since Sick 3 a couple of packets that are actually worth having!) Again you can code your own targets - but again there is a monthly sub
Zennoposter is a laudible end goal. But for anyone not familiar at all with coding concepts, logic, iterations, routine calls etc then it may just sit on your hard drive and be $347 you wish you'd never spent,
Scritty