thanks to packers '11 official languages' and final jeopardy today, i can say that packer is from south africa. go him
if you want cracking help, google really is the best source. if you are into irc, there are proly a billion cracking groups that have a channel. of course, cracking requires decompiling source code, which is specifically forbidden in most EULA's, so we arent allowed to go deep @ all.