I've just opened this thread and noticed Jerry Rasmussen's comments about Cakewalk and totally agree. I've got a copy and it's very cheap and very nasty (the price isn't though) and in Britain the back up support is non-existent.

I scrapped it recently and moved on to Cool Edit which is much less fiddly to use and has features which the makers of my edition of Cakewalk obviously never heard of.