moose;234473 wrotefor pokerstars best offer is pokersource.com, you can pm me about it if you want
For moneybookers I forget how I got it going. Can't remember if I withdrew from Absolute or was it FT to moneybookers. How did you do it comp? Pretty sure you can't withdraw to moneybookers from Stars unless you have deposited from moneybookers first but some sites do allow that. Another way to go is find someone to swap you Stars money for a moneybooker to moneybooker transfer. I think maybe I might have done it that way with Hobbes or someone. There is a small fee for that. Anyways once you have some money in your moneybookers account, make a small deposit to your poker site and then you are free to withdraw as much as you want. There are no fees.
My usual process is to move money around site to site using moneybookers and whenever I want some cash, I get a cheque sent from pokerstars and cash it. That way I never pay any fees.
I think I originally did it by withdrawing from the old Paradise site, remember that one? They didn't have that restriction. As you said I used that to then "activate" MB with other poker sites, probably 10-11 of them over the years... I do my withdrawels by cheque just like you, although likely not as often.. lol... I also helped a couple of forumers fund their MB accounts back in the day by transferring directly from my MB to theirs then they would transfer to a poker site and transfer back to me...