If, as you say, you are computer challenged, I would go with an Alesis Masterlink. It would be a simple one-box solution for you.
http://www.zzounds.com/item--ALEML9600I bought one years ago and it it one of the most regularly used pieces in my studio. I really don't know what I would do without it. Not terribly expensive at $799 street price, and it can do all you could wish for.
It has a built in 40 GB hard drive, so you load whatever you want to put on CD into the hard drive then after that you can add track IDs, do all your fades to make it sound pro, equalize, and compress so you can listen to classical and jazz more easily in your car. You can record 16, 20 or 24 bit wordlengths at sample rates of 44, 48, 88 or 96 k, so if you need to record something at a very high resolution you can record at 24/96 and still put that onto a normal CDR. Makes a cheap archival copy, and is used that way in the recording industry. I have heard that a number of big budget projects were mastered to Masterlink.
Mine has been perfectly reliable, and I use it every day - it probably runs an average of 4 hours a day over the last 4 years and has paid for itself very many times over.
As Nathan says, though, don't scrimp on the cassette deck. You might want to buy one of my AIWAs - I have 17 for sale! Just kidding - they are for sale though, but not to the states - too much hassle with the border.
