@Family Guy:
Thanks for the input and I've looked at some, but not all of those options. My pc crapped out: dropped down a flight of stairs while being moved. It's older, doesn't boot, and I sold off the cpu's for cash because I'm not even sure what else isn't working on it. I could take the time to fix it, but I have quite a few other functional machines that don't cost me anything but time to work with. I really should have said, "I lost my pc and haven't seen the need to replace it...until perhaps now." I'll check out the other suggestions you have also. It's worth noting that if I wanted to avoid all headache, I'd just go buy the popcorn hour.
Tinkering with all this stuff does help start great conversations with fellow gamers such as yourself. It also allows me to (hopefully) save some mac users a little bit of time by collecting a bit of my experience here. You are correct, most if not all my problems could be avoided by not using a mac for my setup, or installing winxp in bootcamp... but who'd want to hear me talk about that? I'd sound even more boring! ;) Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.
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