DEBT (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2013

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments

	June 30, 2013			September 30, 2012
	(in thousands)
Term A Loan, 10.5% fixed-rate notes, due February 2014	$	7,963		$	8,090
Term B Loan, convertible, 8.0% fixed-rate notes, due October 2014	8,259			7,755
Other	4			7
2014 Debentures, convertible, 8.0% fixed-rate notes, due October 2014	43,907			42,521
Total debt, net	60,133			58,373
Less current portion of debt, net	(7,967		)	—
Long-term debt, less current portion, net	$	52,166		$	58,373

Schedule of Debt

Additional information about our debt is as follows:

	Term A Loan			Term B Loan			2014 Debentures
	(in thousands)
Principal	$	7,857		$	9,342		$	46,493
Unaccreted debt premium/(unamortized) debt discount	106			(1,083		)	(2,586		)
Carrying value	$	7,963		$	8,259		$	43,907
Interest payable terms	Quarterly, in arrears			Quarterly, in arrears			Semi-annually, in arrears
Annual effective interest rate	8.2		%	17.7		%	12.2		%
Conversion rate per common share	n/a			$	4.95		$	4.50

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt

Maturity of our total aggregated outstanding debt is as follows:

Fiscal year	(in thousands)
2014	$	7,857
2015	55,835
Total	$	63,692