Wow.. lot of posts today. I'm not even going to try to answer them all. The only one that sticks in mind is about the video tools. Yes, I have a digital camcorder and a FireWire card in my PC so I can grab video directly from the camera. It wasn't working right a month or so ago, and never really tried to find out why, but I'm sure I could get it fixed for this.
And I have Sony Vegas 6 (not just the Windows Movie Maker) so I can edit video. Well, the software can, I'm not very practised at editing.