Dave,

You say:
"The computer doesn't seem to recognize there is a CD in the drive."

The following is for Wintel machines NOT MACS.

1st
There's always the possibility of a bad CD or drive.
To check:
Put CD in drive and open Explorer
A drive symbol and letter should appear along with the notation "Audio CD" OR "Audiofs".
If you see the drive symbol and letter but NEITHER notation, the CD is bad.
If you do NOT see the drive symbol and letter, there's a problem with the drive itself. (I have a PC that occasionally does not recognize its CD-Rom drive. Sometimes it takes a couple of reboots (and a whack) to get it to do so.)

Anyway,
There are two different notations because
your computer treats CD-Rom drives differently depending upon how Windows has been configured. Windows will treat a CD-Rom drive as a data drive OR a music CD drive.

If you have a single CD-Rom drive and it is configured as a data drive, a music CD will NOT start playing automatically when you insert it into the drive.

To check this look at:
Control Panel
Multimedia (icon)
CD Music (tab)
Default CD-ROM drive for playing CD music
If your single CD-Rom isn't listed here, it is configured as a data drive. You can configure it as a music CD drive by selecting it from the drop-down list.

You ask:
"How do I set up the various songs so that the CD "plays through" from one song to the next, but is recognized by programs as separate tracks?"
If you want separate tracks you must start with separate WAV files, one for each musical item that will appear as a track. If you put everything into a singel WAV file with silences between, then the single WAV file will appear as a single track.

You ask:
"Do I need something more heavyweight than MusicMatch"
For simply taking WAV files and placing them on a music CD, no.
Any CD burning program, including all the freeware,shareware,cheapware programs will do that.
The more editing you want to do of WAV files, the more program you need. I use Sound Forge Studio for editing WAV files and Roxio Easy CD Creator for burning them.

Good luck

Russ (GUEST forever!)