yeah the lanparty series is all pretty much the same...the expert is supposedly the better board but it has a repution of killing off hardware...there's a poll on xtremesystems and last I checked about 25 incidents occured on the expert of almost immediately dead parts after months of use in the other lanparties
Dunno why you're going through so much trouble to get stuff though, places like ncix.com are fine for shopping and I'd only order from the states if there was something impossible to get here like G.Skill memory