Carol, we've done a lot of tape transfer from a regular tape deck. You do have to go to Radio Shack or somewhere and get a cable that feeds from line out to your sound card input.

I'm confused as to how you can go from your Walkman though. Robo, are you saying she can patch from the earphone jack right to the sound card? If you can, that's great, although I'm curious whether the Walkman can deliver high enough quality sound. Would it be better to borrow an old tape deck from a friend?

I've been using RipEditBurn to do the transferring and 'clean-up' but am really unhappy with their support and not too excited about their noise filtering. Any other good software people can recommend?