Mark, I have done this with great success with the most of my vinyl and tape collction. First off, I would ditch Roxio post haste and get a copy of Ahead Nero Burning ROM. Nero is an easy, and superb tool for burning media of all types.

For recording my music, I use and old version of Sound Forge. I record everything in 44kHz stereo, track by track. I also use Sound Forge to clean up my vinyl recordings a little. I snip off the dead space at the beginning and end of the track and if there are really bad pops, I supress them a little in the wave form. But that said, I also use a decent quality record cleaning brush and record cleaning solution or Windex right before I record. After I record each track, I also file and name them appropriately for my usage:

(Artist/Album/Artist - Album - Track Number leading zero - Track Name.mp3)

So, once I have my .wavs recorded for each track, I simply open Nero and burn each album to CD. These CDs will play in any regular CD player I own.

Then, using Exact Audio Copy, I simply compress each track to .MP3. EAC will maintain the same file name, but convert them to .MP3 at whatever bit rate you want.

To take things a step further, I then use ID3-TagIT to update each track's ID3 tag to the appropriate name so when I put my music on my Zen, everything works correctly.

Bart