SHARE-BASED PAYMENT (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Stock option activity for all option grants for fiscal 2012 is as follows:

				Weighted-average
(in thousands, except per share data)	Shares under option			Exercise price		Remaining contractual term	Aggregate intrinsic value
Options outstanding at September 30, 2011		3,083		$	6.42
Granted		482			3.67
Exercised		—			—
Forfeitures or expirations		(405	)		6.92
Options outstanding at September 30, 2012		3,160		$	5.94	7.43 years	$	—
Options vested and expected to vest at September 30, 2012		2,658		$	5.96	7.36 years	$	—
Options exercisable at September 30, 2012		1,471		$	7.07	6.21 years	$	—

Restricted stock units awards outstanding

Our non-employee Board members are awarded 9,000 restricted stock units upon their election to our Board at our annual meeting. These are liability based awards. The following awards are outstanding as of September 30, 2012:

	Total restricted stock units awarded			Vesting date
Balance at September 30, 2011		135,000
Vested		(135,000	)
Granted		63,000		April 13, 2013
Balance at September 30, 2012		63,000

The following table provides information on the expense related to the restricted stock unit awards to the Board of Directors:

	Annual meeting
(in thousands)	2012		2011		2010		2009
Expense recognized for fiscal 2012	$	142	$	93	$	—	$	111
Expense recognized through September 30, 2012		142		299		280		416	(a)
Expense recognized through vesting date	(b)			299		280		416

(a)	This amount includes the $0.1 million recognized related to the acceleration for the two board members not standing for re-election at our 2010 annual meeting.
(b)	Liability awards are revalued at the end of every quarter based on the closing price of our stock on the last day of the quarter. We are unable to estimate the expense expected to be recognized for these awards.

Amended And Restated 2004 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Assumptions used to calculate the fair value of awards

The following table shows the assumptions used to calculate the fair value of these awards:

	CFO award			CEO award
Assumptions used in Black-Scholes model:
Expected period that options will be outstanding (in years)		5.00			5.00
Interest rate (based on U.S. Treasury yields at time of grant)		1.59	%		1.40	%
Volatility		46.21	%		45.50	%
Dividend yield		—			—
Fair value of options granted	$	1.95		$	2.08

Inducement Grant [Member]

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Assumptions used to calculate the fair value of awards

The following table shows the weighted-average assumptions we used to calculate the fair value of share-based options using the Black-Scholes model, as well as the weighted-average fair value of options granted and the weighted-average intrinsic value of options exercised. We granted 482,250 options from the Plan during fiscal 2012.

	September 30,
	2012			2011			2010
Weighted-average assumptions used in Black-Scholes model:
Expected period that options will be outstanding (in years)		5.00			5.00			5.00
Interest rate (based on U.S. Treasury yields at time of grant)		0.89	%		1.75	%		1.40	%
Volatility		48.77	%		46.80	%		45.50	%
Dividend yield		—			—			—
Weighted-average fair value of options granted	$	1.57		$	2.22		$	2.08
Weighted-average intrinsic value of options exercised (in thousands)	$	—		$	119		$	24

Expected volatilities are based on historical volatility of our stock. In addition, we used historical data to estimate option exercise and employee forfeitures within the valuation model.