As should anyone who understands the various security solutions available. I don't need an IronKey, it just works better than anything else on the market.

I fiddle with technology for a living, but no one is going to pay me to fiddle with TrueCrypt and I have no interest in spending personal time to save the marginal cost between the two technologies.

That is the deciding factor. I have no doubt that software only solutions are perfectly reasonable alternatives. The OP stated that the solutions he looked at were "a bit over his head".

At least one of the other hardware solutions mentioned on this thread can be circumvented by soldering a simple wire to the circuit board