I am wanting to get a one of those specials from rackshack, but I really do not care about pleask and I kind of prefer cpanel, from what I understand though is that you have to get it through a reseller or something so how do I go about getting cpanel, who would I speak with?

cpanel.net theres a list on the side of distributors

same situation...

check this:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=27989

and also this:
http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=10169#post10169

A lot of people won't consider RackShack until they can offer WebHost Manager/CPanel as an alternative to plesk, especially with the release of NOCsoft early next year.

Plesk may not have a bad back-engine (I'm not here to judge that), but the front end simply sucks BIG TIME!