Lyle,
Just a note. A couple of very good, inexpensive, easy to use recording programs are Reaper and nTrack Studio
For my Windows recording I use an early version of nTrack Studio. It's about as simple as can be to start recording. No tracks to arm & etc. You just hit the record button and you're recording. If you want to lay down additional tracks you just back the existing track/s to the starting point and hit record again. Your existing tracks will play as you're laying down an additional track, or tracks if you have multiple inputs on your sound card.
As you mentioned, Audacity works pretty well for digitizing your old cassettes or lps though the other programs will work as well.

Last edited by DakLander; 11/07/07 02:37 AM.