(a)       A registration statement (No. 333-124064), including a prospectus, and an additional registration statement (No. 333-126243) filed pursuant to rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Act”), both relating to the Firm Securities, have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) and have become effective. Such registration statements are collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Statement,” and the prospectus included in such Registration Statement, as supplemented to reflect the terms of the offering of the Firm Securities, as first filed with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 424(b) (“Rule 424(b)”) under the Act, including all material incorporated by reference therein, is hereinafter referred to as the “Prospectus.” No document has been or will be prepared or distributed in reliance on Rule 434 under the Act.

    (b)        On the effective date of the Registration Statement, the Registration Statement conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission (“Rules and Regulations”) and did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and on the Closing Date (as defined below), the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations, and neither of such documents will include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except that the foregoing does not apply to statements in or omissions from any of such documents based upon written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein.

    (c)       The Company has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify would not have individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Affect (as defined below).

    (d)        Each “significant subsidiary” as listed on Schedule B hereto (each subsidiary on Schedule B is referred to herein as a “Significant Subsidiary” and, collectively, as the “Significant Subsidiaries”) of the Company has been duly incorporated and is a validly existing corporation under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, with corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; and each Significant Subsidiary of the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify would not have individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each Significant Subsidiary of the Company has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable; and the capital stock of each Significant Subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, is owned free from liens, encumbrances and defects, except that the capital stock of certain Significant Subsidiaries directly or indirectly owned by the Company has been pledged as security for the payment and performance of all obligations and liabilities of the Company under the Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated June 25, 2003, as amended, by and among the Company, ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Foothill, Inc., as agent, and the lenders party thereto (“Loan Agreement”).

    (e)       The Firm Securities and all other outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized; all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are, and, when the Firm Securities have been delivered and paid for in accordance with this Agreement on the Closing Date, such Firm Securities will have been, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus; and the stockholders of the Company have no preemptive rights with respect to the Firm Securities.

    (f)        Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with the offer and sale of the Firm Securities.

    (g)       There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Act.

    (h)        The Firm Securities have been approved for listing on The Nasdaq Stock Market’s National Market (“Nasdaq National Market”), subject to notice of issuance.

    (i)        No consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in connection with the issuance and sale of the Firm Securities by the Company, except such as have been obtained and made under the Act and such as may be required under state securities laws and except in any such case where the failure to obtain such consent, approval or authorization, or to make such filing, would not have individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect.

    (j)        The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the issuance and sale of the Firm Securities will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, any rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or any of their properties, or any agreement or instrument to which the Company or any such subsidiary is a party or by which the Company or any such subsidiary is bound or to which any of the properties of the Company or any such subsidiary is subject, or the charter or by-laws of the Company or any such subsidiary, and the Company has full corporate power and authority to authorize, issue and sell the Firm Securities as contemplated by this Agreement.

    (k)        Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in each case free from liens, encumbrances and defects that would have individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect, except that all of the assets owned by the Company and certain of its subsidiaries have been pledged as security for the payment and performance of all obligations and liabilities of the Company under the Loan Agreement; and except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries hold any material leased real or personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no exceptions that would materially interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by them.

    (l)        The Company and its subsidiaries possess adequate certificates, authorities or permits issued by appropriate governmental agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by them and have not received any written notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authority or permit that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the financial condition, business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (“Material Adverse Effect”).

    (m)       No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any subsidiary exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent that might have a Material Adverse Effect.

    (n)        The Company and its subsidiaries own, possess or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate trademarks, trade names and other rights to inventions, know-how, patents, copyrights, confidential information and other intellectual property (collectively, “intellectual property rights”) necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, or presently employed by them, and have not received any written notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any intellectual property rights that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect.

    (o)        Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings against or affecting the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement, or which are otherwise required to be described in the Prospectus but are not so described; and no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or, to the Company’s knowledge, contemplated.

    (p)       The historical consolidated financial statements included in the Registration Statement and Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown, and, except as noted therein, such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis; any schedules included in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein; and, in the opinion of the Company, the assumptions used in preparing the pro forma financial statements included in the Registration Statement and Prospectus provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the transactions or events described therein, the related pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions, and the pro forma columns therein reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the corresponding historical financial statement amounts.

    (q)        Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Prospectus there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the financial condition, business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, and, except as disclosed in or contemplated by the Prospectus, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock.

    (r)       The Company is subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and files reports with the Commission on the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (▇▇▇▇▇) system.

    (s)       The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Firm Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, will not be an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.

    (t)        Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates does business with the government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate located in Cuba within the meaning of Section 517.075, Florida Statutes and the Company agrees to comply with such Section if prior to the completion of the distribution of the Firm Securities it commences doing such business.

    (a)        The Company will file the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 424(b)(2) or Rule 424(b)(5) not later than the second business day following the execution and delivery of the this Agreement.

    (b)        The Company will advise Baird promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and will afford Baird a reasonable opportunity to comment on any such proposed amendment or supplement; and the Company will also advise Baird promptly of the filing of any such amendment or supplement and of the institution by the Commission of any stop order proceedings in respect of the Registration Statement or of any part thereof and will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and to obtain as soon as possible its lifting, if issued.

    (c)       If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Firm Securities is required to be delivered under the Act in connection with sales by any Underwriter or dealer, any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to amend the Prospectus to comply with the Act, the Company promptly will notify Baird of such event and will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, at its own expense, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which will effect such compliance. Neither ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ consent to, nor the Underwriters’ delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 6 hereof.

    (d)        As soon as practicable, but not later than the Availability Date (as defined below), the Company will make generally available to its securityholders an earnings statement (which need not be audited) covering a period of at least 12 months beginning after the effective date of the registration statement relating to the Firm Securities, which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act. For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “Availability Date” means the 45^th day after the end of the fourth fiscal quarter following the fiscal quarter that includes such effective date, except that, if such fourth quarter is the last quarter of the Company’s fiscal year, “Availability Date” means the 90^th day after the end of such fourth fiscal quarter.

    (e)       The Company will furnish to the Representative copies of the Registration Statement, including all exhibits, any related preliminary prospectus, any related preliminary prospectus supplement, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents, in each case as soon as available and in such quantities as Baird reasonably requests. The Company will pay the expenses of printing and distributing to the Underwriters all such documents.

    (f)        The Company will arrange for the qualification of the Firm Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as Baird designates and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution.

    (g)       The Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, for any filing fees or other expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) in connection with qualification of the Firm Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as Baird may designate and the preparation of memoranda relating thereto (provided that counsel fees in connection therewith do not exceed $5,000), for any applicable filing fee incident to, the review by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. of the Firm Securities, for any travel expenses of the Company’s officers and employees and any other expenses of the Company in connection with attending or hosting meetings with prospective purchasers of Firm Securities and for expenses incurred in distributing the Prospectus, any preliminary prospectuses, any preliminary prospectus supplements or any other amendments or supplements to the Prospectus to the Underwriters.

    (h)        For a period of 90 days after the date hereof, the Company will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to, any additional shares of its Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any shares of its Common Stock, or publicly disclose the intention to make any such offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing, without the prior written consent of Baird, except (i) issuances of Common Stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities or the exercise of warrants or options, in each case outstanding on the date of this Agreement, (ii) grants of employee stock options pursuant to the terms of a plan in effect on the date of this Agreement and issuances of Common Stock pursuant to the exercise of such options, (iii) issuance of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the terms of a plan in effect on the date of this Agreement, (iv) filing a registration statement increasing the number of shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Common Stock available for grant or issuance under the terms of a plan in effect on the date of this Agreement, (v) filing a registration statement to register shares of Common Stock for use in connection with acquisitions, and (vi) issuances of Common Stock in connection with acquisitions and the filing of a registration statement to permit the resale of those shares of Common Stock.

    (a)        The Representative shall have received a letter, dated the date of delivery thereof, of BDO ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, LLP confirming that they are independent public accountants within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published Rules and Regulations thereunder and stating to the effect that:

    (i)        in their opinion the financial statements and any schedules and any summary of earnings audited by them and included in the Prospectus comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related published Rules and Regulations;

    (ii)       on the basis of a reading of the latest available interim financial statements of the Company, and inquiries of officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters and other specified procedures, nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that:

    (A)        at the date of the latest available balance sheet read by such accountants, or at a subsequent specified date not more than three business days prior to the date of such letter, there was any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries or, at the date of the latest available balance sheet read by such accountants, there was any decrease in stockholders’ equity or net current assets, as compared with amounts shown on the latest balance sheet included in the Prospectus; or

    (B)        for the period from the closing date of the latest statement of operations included in the Prospectus to the closing date of the latest available statement of operations read by such accountants there were any decreases, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, in consolidated revenue, or any increase in the total amount of net loss;

    (iii)       they have compared specified dollar amounts (or percentages derived from such dollar amounts) and other financial information contained in the Prospectus (in each case to the extent that such dollar amounts, percentages and other financial information are derived from the general accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries subject to the internal controls of the Company’s accounting system or are derived directly from such records by analysis or computation) with the results obtained from inquiries, a reading of such general accounting records and other procedures specified in such letter and have found such dollar amounts, percentages and other financial information to be in agreement with such results, except as otherwise specified in such letter.

    (b)        The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with the Rules and Regulations and Section 5(a) of this Agreement. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Underwriter, shall be contemplated by the Commission.

    (c)        Subsequent to the execution of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development or event involving a prospective change, in the financial condition, business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as one enterprise which, in the judgment of a majority in interest of the Underwriters, has a Material Adverse Effect and makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or the sale of and payment for the Firm Securities; (ii) any downgrading in the rating of any debt securities of the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act), or any public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any change in U.S. or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls as would, in the reasonable judgment of a majority in interest of the Underwriters, be likely to prejudice materially the success of the proposed issue, sale or disposition of the Firm Securities, whether in the primary market or in respect of dealings in the secondary market; (iv) any material suspension or material limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, or any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange; (v) or any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market; (vi) any banking moratorium declared by U.S. Federal or New York authorities; (vii) any major disruption of settlements of securities or clearance services in the United States or (viii) any attack on, outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the United States, any declaration of war by Congress or any other national or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of a majority in interest of the Underwriters, the effect of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or the sale of and payment for the Firm Securities.

    (d)        The Representative shall have received an opinion, dated the Closing Date, of ▇▇▇▇▇ & Lardner LLP, counsel for the Company, to the effect that:

    (i)        The Company is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other U.S. jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect;

    (ii)        The Firm Securities and all other outstanding shares of the Common Stock of the Company have been duly authorized; all outstanding shares of Common Stock are, and the Firm Securities being sold by the Company pursuant to this Agreement will be, when paid for in accordance with this Agreement, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and conform to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus; and, to the knowledge of such counsel, the stockholders of the Company have no preemptive rights with respect to the Firm Securities;

    (iii)       To the knowledge of such counsel, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings known to such counsel between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Act;

    (iv)       No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in connection with the issuance or sale of the Firm Securities by the Company, except such as have been obtained and such as may be required under the Act and under applicable securities laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Firm Securities will be offered and sold, as to which such counsel need express no opinion, and except in any such case where the failure to obtain such consent, approval or authorization, or to make such filing, would not have individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect;

    (v)        The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and consummation of the transactions contemplated herein (including the issuance and sale of the Firm Securities and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Firm Securities as described in the Prospectus under the caption “Use Of Proceeds”) will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, any rule, regulation or order of any U.S. governmental agency or body or any U.S. court having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties, or any agreement or instrument set forth on Schedule C to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the properties of the Company is subject, or the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company, except in any such case where such breach, violation or default would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company has full corporate power and authority to authorize, issue and sell the Firm Securities as contemplated by this Agreement;

    (vi)        The Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, the Prospectus was filed with the Commission pursuant to the subparagraph of Rule 424(b) specified in such opinion on the date specified therein, and, to the knowledge of such counsel, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated under the Act, and the Registration Statement (except for financial statements and schedules and other financial or statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), as of its effective date, the Prospectus (except for financial statements and schedules and other financial or statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), as of the date of this Agreement, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations; the descriptions in the Registration Statement and Prospectus of statutes, legal and governmental proceedings and contracts and other documents are accurate in all material respects; and such counsel do not know of any legal or governmental proceedings required to be described in the Prospectus which are not described as required or of any contracts or documents of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which are not described and filed as required; and

    (vii)        This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

    (e)        The Representative shall have received from ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Will & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to the incorporation of the Company, the validity of the Firm Securities, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Representative may require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.

    (f)        The Representative shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of the President or any Vice President and a principal financial or accounting officer of the Company in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, that the Company has complied in all material respects with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any part thereof has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated by the Commission and that, subsequent to the date of the most recent financial statements in the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the financial condition, business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole except as set forth in the Prospectus or as described in such certificate.

    (g)        The Representative shall have received a letter, dated the Closing Date, of BDO ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, LLP which meets the requirements of subsection (a) of this Section, except that the specified date referred to in such subsection will be a date not more than three days prior to the Closing Date for the purposes of this subsection.

    (h)        The Representative shall have received lock-up letters from each of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇.

    (i)        The Company will furnish the Representative with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Representative reasonably requests.