Yes, ever since I saw his Pharaoh's and Kings TV special when I was about 16.  I have tweaked the years up and down because I have a different Exodus date, but all the synchronisms are the same.  I haven't begun Lords of Avaris yet, and my contributions to the Yahoo! Group have been less than sparse since I started work on my PhD, but I am still a Rohlian at heart.  
Is the NC manager a standalone piece of software?  
I don't know about the personal messaging, if I had to guess I would say no.