If the xilinx store does not want to carry regular parts and the distributors do not want to carry ES parts, why not have the xilinx store carry the ES parts? That way something would be available to those who are willing to use ES parts. Since virtex 5 (non ES) is still not avaliable and virtex 4 is scarce, I am not expecting to see the 3AN in less than a year from now for us small folks.
Of course, since versions 8 and 9 of ise are broken fatally for my designs, that may not be such an issue. I am still hoping that xilinx makes the software work with schematics while I am converting the projects to vhdl.