The only self-ballasted CFL's that I like enough to supply myself at the moment are the Phillips one's. Certain TCP's are okay, and certain one's not, but I can't tell the good one's from the bad one's by looking at them.
The way I have computed the cost of the cfl's, trims, lamps and install versus the same for incandescent she will recoup her investment in energy savings in 40 years