CompuServe Messages

I am looking for a listing of American businesses on CD-ROM. There are several such offerings I know of, none of which are really appropriate for my needs. I work with a marketing company which buys mailing lists. They currently pay 2-3 cents per name for prequalified lists. We'd like to be able to cut this down some, but even more, it'd be a lot more convenient if we could get this sort of thing on CD-ROM. I have some information from the Business America directory, but their low-priced product offers no means of downloading. Their full-blown one is priced at $7500 for the first 20,000 names, then 30 cents per name afterward. Needless to say, the price of that one is prohibitive. I have also looked at the ProPhone CD-ROM, which claims to have all business and residential phone directories from the US on it. The price is right on this one–only $149–and they'll let you download, but the information seems pretty inaccurate. I don't have a phone listing at all, despite being in the same house for quite a while, and it the same city for several years. The owner of the company is listed at his address as of two years ago, etc. So I was not too impressed with the residential stuff (yes, this is the '93 edition). It's hard to tell about the business stuff, but I got a little suspicious when it only found 49 wheat farmers in all of Kansas, and one of those was "Joe's LP Gas Service." Does anyone know of any really good CDs out there with business information on them, that are also reasonably priced? Even a few thousand bucks would probably be okay (although a few hundred would be even niced <g>), but 30 cents a name is way too much. One ad campaign can easily use hundreds of thousands of names. They would need to have info on business name, address, phone and classification. Other things like num. employees, contact name, etc., would be icing on the cake. Thanks for any input. MH