Dear Gav,
I can understand you have been waiting for so long. Even I sent my first application in Feb 2010. So it's almost 13 months of totally frustrating processing. I had been rejected once before too...so actually my Canadian dream began somewhere in August 2009. I almost got rejected this time as well when my status changed to VOERC from RBVO... Instead of changing to In Proc. However I was lucky this time that they asked for additional docs and status changed to In Process. I can understand the wait is killing us but it's not something we can do about...so just hold on...may god give u the success soon...