Well,
anskiere has just brought it to my attention that my laptop has a Mic Input and if I get a good microphone I can just record music in wav format straight to my computer. That is certainly a temporary solution to my recording problem... as for recording my lessons, it might be a pain in the ass and it'll use up all my space, but then I can always burn to CD. In any case it'll certainly do for now!
Fleen xoxo