Gil:
 
You're gonna like it.  I've used mine at a few rehearsals now.  I've been hooking it up to the P.A. and playing back what we just recorded while I'm packing up my gear.  Every one I play with is absolutely blown away by the big sound that comes out of that little plastic box.  Then I listen to it on the ride home through my car's stereo.
 
Bill, tgo

Thanks for all the great info.  I've recorded using Garageband on my son's Mac notebook and my own desktop Mac.  I highly recomend it for incredible ease of use (compared to Cubase), and for having a lot of production feaures that others wishing to get more involved could benefit from.  That's been useful, but I'm looking for something more portable but still capable of producing good sound (I'm definitely not all that picky) and downloading to a Mac fairly easily.  
I've been reading with rapt attention here and think a Zoom H2 or 4 may give me what I'm looking for.  Anybody have any experience downloading from a Zoom to a Mac?
Bill

It's here! Very easy to use out of the box. No PHd required. The Pranksters have our next show Wed night and I will be recording with the H2. When done, I'll have to figure out how to make CDs. I actually was surprised this didn't come with software. I have some burning software on the PC, namely Sonic Stage and Nero but I think those are proprietary softwares that only work with devices that record in their format?  
 
Peace,
 
Gil

Nero should work fine.

Many thanks Dave!