I don't know what a 486 is... but my computer is less than 2months old so its only slightly obsolete and should be able to handle whatever needs to done.
THANKS!
People wonder why we love this site too. I'm going to try audacity first just because it was suggested first, if that doesn't work I'll move onto goldwave. My phone has an mp3 player, which I'm going to use much at all, but i don't have to download ringtones, I can use a song, but without editing I have to use an entire song just to use the first 20 seconds of it as a ringtone, and this eats the phones memory. It has a miniSD slot, and I have 1GB card, but the ringtone has to be on the phones paltry 50MB internal memory.
I say all that so you guys know just how much I appreciate the help!