I grabbed it as a Buy-It-Now purchase from an eBay seller....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3401833834
...And shipping is $34 for 3-7 day ground freight, not bad at all. I still need to buy a couple cheap KVMs so I can use dual monitors on both my PC and the Mac (once you've used dual monitors you can never go back), and then figure out how to get ahold of Photoshop, Illustrator, and maybe QuarkXpress and Bryce without committing financial suicide, and I can really dig into learning what I need to get into designing graphics professionally.
Again, thanks for the help... and useful apps you can point me to would be... well, useful.