Thanks, FrankB. I tried Audacity and didn't like it as well as some pgms that I already have. I didn't mention that I also have Mixcraft which I haven't really gotten into yet. Here's a partial quote from rockstar from the thread you referred to:

"I'm really curious, what can you do in Audacity that is better/easier/faster than in RB or Cubase? I find it an incredibly frustrating program to use, even though it's free. Cubase has a plenty fine audio editor. RB, not so much. I just would like to know.

The only reason I tried using it as a multi-track tool is that you can run it from a jump drive; so you can truly take projects just about anywhere. However, Reaper does it with much more ease and flair - and even though I don't like some of the product naming choices of the Reaper developer, if I had to use it in a pinch, I would choose it over Audacity in a heartbeat.

I find using Audacity almost as hard to get my mind wrapped around as switching from an algebraic calculator to RPN - for the nerd analogy of the day."

That pretty much sez it for me except that I don't have Cubase. You can't edit multi-tracks in Wavepad, but you can in RB. I guess it's easier for me to learn things in pieces rather than trying to attack one big program that does all things for all people. Maybe if I was smarter?
I'm not putting Audacity down because I really don't even know how to use it. You must be near Chico. I'm up the road from you another 75 miles.

Cornet Curmudgeon