Accounting software, alternatives to Quickbooks

Quickbooks is driving me nuts. The online version of the software only works with IE and I got bring up my VM just for that. It doesn't connect to my bank half the time. The service goes down at least once a week for maintenance. How do you'll do accounting? Are there any alternatives?

The reason I choose quickbooks was cost. From what I understand it cost a lot more to hire someone but after three weeks with the program I'll have to reconsider that.