MBox and problems with OSX Tiger?
The budget has been upped a little (thanks to my lovely wife), and this is what I am thinking (though it keeps changing) as a nice little system:
AKG c3000b microphone for my acoustic guitar and vocals
POD XT live
iMac g5, 2.0 GHZ, 512RAM, 250GB harddrive
Mbox with PT Le
Reason 3.0