Hello Dolly:
No agency can influence the DV process. It is all in your hand. How you fill the form, the signed photograph, your native country in the left hand corner of the envelop. These have to be carefully checked and double checked before you send the application in. Also, you need to send through first class ordinary post. No special delivery. If you follow the instructions to the dot, you have a very high chance of winning. You need to be consistent and persistent. Open a three ring binder and keep copies of your old submissions and instructions for those years. Then you will know what are the changes you do for the coming year. this has to be planned. Just haphazard sending DV submission does not get you good results. Before you send it ask two seperate individuals to check your appliction against the instructions. The mailing period is very important too.
Wish you good luck and hope you will win in DV2005.
PWDG