What do people recommend? Optionvue? others? I was just demo'ing esignal to see the package. They don't have historical option data.
You might want to give Optionstar a try. http://www.optionstar.com It has several free delayed datafeeds and realtime for 10 bucks a month. There is some historical options data in the Spread Scanner module.
What spec PC are you running optionstar on? I tried the demo on dell dual 600 512k ram and did not have enough system resources after rebooting and only trying to run optionstar.