Re: Big Favor to ask the herd before they cull me.

The Casablanca will not be a good solution. I have used it in the past and it is really 10 year old technology and often causes more problems, not less. Editing is somewhat intuitive but it does have some very unusual habits which can make some simple editing chores painfully slow. You would also run into problems with your pre-formatted video. The system is closed and the hard drives are not large. The only way to clear enough space to do a new project is to do a complete format of the hard drive. You would spend a lot of time in retransferring all your pre-made segments. It is vastly overpriced for what it does in this era. Stick with a computer.

Vegas is very hard to beat but I asssume that Vegas is more than you want from either a cost or complexity standpoint.
You might look at something like Pinnacle's Studio 8. It is a incredibly powerful yet very simple program - easy to learn, easy to use, unbelievably powerful for the price and has DVD creatiion right from the timeline. But be forewarned it is still a somewhat flaky program. Computer specs seem to be critical - some have used it flawlessly since day 1, many others have had nothing but problems. I never got it to work properly for me and once I found Vegas I pretty much gave up on it. But I think they have cleared up many of the original problems now.

You might also look at Vegas' little brother - I think they are referring to it as Screenblast now. It might be just what you're looking for. Less complex and much cheaper than Vegas. I haven't used it myself but there are probably others on this board that can vouch for it.