Funding your movie through grants

God! How many times have I gone through this vicious cycle - get some funds, make a no budget movie and then get some bridge funds, grants, friends-family-relatives...!!
Again me and my buddy are stuck at the same tight spot - frantically trying to raise funds :(
Today I stumbled on http://www.filmproposals.com/Film-Grants.htm and http://www.caryn.com/indie/film_financing/grants.html - these lists sound too good to be true. Let me know if you really raised some funds using any of these.
In addition, as always there is good info on financing a movie at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_finance

Writing sheet music - again!

After my last post, I learnt that RoseGarden is much easier for what I want to do and it also is integrated with Lilly Pond so still can print sheet music that I always wanted. Check it out! It is available for Windows and Unix flavours. RoseGarden seems to be an exhaustive solution for music composers.