If I had a few more hands I could count the number of times I've failed at communicating through a keyboard and came off sounding like an ordinary douche. Or failed at communicating with a women face to face, but that's another story.....
Roycer - You won't regret a Kifaru, no matter what color you get.  I can understand the hesitancy, I looked longingly at a Late Season for a couple years back when I was a poor college student.  I ended up getting one after I graduated and got a real job, but it was still hard to spend that much cash on a durn backpack.  This was back when you could have any color you wanted, as long as it was black.
Since then I've purchased several packs from Kifaru and haven't regretted any of the money spent.  It's just one of those things, you don't know what you don't know.  After you have one, get it adjusted right and put a few hundred miles on it, then you know.  From then on spending that much cash on a backpack no longer makes you feel silly.  It doesn't hurt that the resale is very good on them either.