Typical - Microsoft is always sticking it to people. Without Exmerge, it took my guys 19 hours to export email in a disaster recovery situation. It would have taken JUST ME about 6 hours to do the same thing if an exmerge equivalent had been included in the Exchange 2007 final product.
Thanks for taking away one of the most useful tools in the Gold Partner arsenal. Not only is the product not installing properly in production environments that are not 100% pristine (pretty much just lab environments), and not only do I have lots of trouble moving mailboxes BACK to a 2003 server, but you remove my exmerge, so I could not just dump a company out to .PST files, blow up everything, and rebuild a pristine environment from scratch. Typical Microsoft - thinking with your butt instead of your brain.