@Mike
Yeah, like you say “agileness” doesn’t seem to have got as much traction as you’d expect. People find something very re-assuring about a good thick specification.
There’s also the influence of project managers and quality assurance types with a background in Construction projects. As far as I know the Waterfall method is pretty much the only way of doing those projects so they tend to apply it to everything.

BTW: I just realised I should have done the links in my last post as HTML (duh). Is there a way that I can edit the post or can you do it for me?