Your right Cal, it was the farang consular that spoke good Thai interviewing her. My GF also told me she took a course at the university that preped her on how to interview for student visas/visas.
I applied for the fiance visa in Jan of '04 We jumped thru all the hoops and got a interview at the embassy on 11 Sept 04. We used a service in bkk for this. They handled all the paper etc. Unforturnatley, my TG failed to show up for the interview. We have another one set for Febuary....but she is MIA. Feel free to PM me for more details.