I chose PowerTAB because it's free. I'm assuming the original poster doesn't want to pay an additional $30-50 to convert Finale into ASCII. I've been looking through the list and searching the web...

http://www.musicxml.org/xml/software.html Go to that website for a list of software that supports XML format. PowerTab doesn't import XML files..... :-(...

I try to stay away from most sampled guitar sounds... I mean acoustic sounds good but distorted guitar is... well... ya like you said... kinda sounds like a moose. When I do a musical example... I...

http://www.mxtabs.net/ is a free and legal website to find user submitted tabs. They only accept ASCII tabs and don't ask me why.

yup... it's here: http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=11&m=249121