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Mate,
you may want to check a thread I started a couple of months ago (I was in the same situation as you are now). Its entitled Definative Flight School - Aus, US, UK, NZ roughly. The last post was 16th September approximately so you should be able to find it OK.
If you read through that you should get a few ideas (although it does go a bit off all over the place near the end).
As for the schools you mentioned, do a seach on hear and read as much as you can, remember not everythign on pprune is gospel truth, some people have and axe to grind/chip on shoulder, so take everything written good or bad with a pinch of salt. But if yousee the same thing come up again and again well use your judgement. I'm a firm believer where there is smoke there's fire.
Enough cliches for one day.
Stephen