www.zzounds.com looks like a great on-line store, which will be useful for other people in the U.S. looking for equipment. Unfortunately it doesn't ship to Australia, though. The prices at most on-line Aussie stores seem to be pretty uniform (and nearly twice that offered by the U.S. stores, sadly).

drat re: Aussie prices. zzounds is pretty killer.

The Fast Track is pretty serviceable. With that you could get a kick start at creating SFX with that 58.

Good luck!

Tony

As others have pointed out, don't rely on the inputs on your sound card in order to get good audio quality. For one, you're going to need a preamp to boost the signal of your mic before your sound card is ever going to pick it up with its line inputs, and then on top of that, the line inputs on a lot of consumer-level sound cards (e.g., Creative sound cards) tend to be more on the noisy side.

Seriously look into getting a USB or Firewire based audio interface. You don't need anything fancy. Someone suggested the Maudio Firewire 410. Another one to look into is the Presonus Firebox. I own its big brother, the Firepod, and find it to be great piece of hardware. I've found the preamps on Presonus' interfaces to be crystal clear, which is probably the number one feature you should look into when considering an audio interface (aside from whether it has all ins and outs that you need). Both the Firewire 410 and the Firebox cost the same here in the States, so I would assume they're priced about equally over in Australia.