Here, I'll throw Josh a bone.
4, DEV kit include a XILINX platform cable USB, a USB stick with XILINX ISE 13.2/ altium 10/ synplify 2011.03, modelsim 10, all with crack but use as your own risk, commercial use is illegal in my country (but legal for personal use in my country )) .
I was wrong to assume the Avalon team had a good track record with protecting (commercial) IP.
Avalon does, I believe, have a good track record of releasing open source code.