Being admittedly new to the whole 'get every mile you can' thing, heres my stand on all that. Now the $0.0025 per mile I think anybody would gladly jump at. Status mile or not.
I've seen people look at 84,000(or something like that) status miles for $1,700 or so... so thats about $0.0202 per mile, and thats status (but once in a while find). I've seen upto 2.3cents ($0.023) per mile as acceptable. 1cent per mile (or less) is a good deal too. If you have one for 0.0025/mile, share with the class
Hope that helped. As for conversion, I think *wood is the best for that since thats one of the few programs I've seen that do a 1:1 transfer.
Gagan