Man, that stinks about the college expenses...I really like the way they do it in Florida...they have a "Bright Futures" scholarship where if you get a certain SAT score(1270, I believe) and do 75 community service hours and have a certain GPA(3.5 weighted), you get 100% of tuition paid for(if you go to a Florida public university, of course). If you don't quite meet those requirements, you can still potentially get 75% of tuition paid for. So that's really helped me in my pursuit of further education. All I have to pay for is housing, food, and books...
Anyways, I'm glad that you're still picking up the Inika...I've been getting quite excited about them myself - It's amazing how good the newest sets look compared to the oldest ones. As fond as I am of my Toa Olda, they sure got nothing on the Toa Inika.