Best simple stereo input?

Hi all, new to Mac and GB, and digital recording as whole. Did a lot of analog recording back in the day and now getting back into it. My Macbook Pro is two weeks out, so I'm trying to get an idea of what hardware I'm going to need for my various recording applications. After reading through the forum, one application is solved, I'll be recording a church band for mixdown in GB so I'm thinking I like that 8-channel Firepod everyone raves about. That will stay at the church, though, most likely put that in the rack with all the other audio gear. What I'd like to get some recommendations on would be what I could use at home to simply record my guitar. More specifically, the left and right channel line-outs from my Line6 PodXT. Now, I know I can just come out of one channel (mono) 1/4" to the 1/8" line-in on the Macbook Pro, but I like the stereo sounds that I've made in the Pod. I haven't seen a cable that I could take two 1/4" (left and right outputs) into a single 1/8", I'm sure there's got to be one out there but I'm not sure that's the best solution anyway.
I've been looking at some of the interfaces and mixers you've talked about in the forum posts, like the M-Audio USB (~$100 and only mono) and USB-Pro (~$200, does stereo?), any other interfaces that might fit the bill to take the stereo out from the Pod and get it into the MacBook Pro? Thanks in advance, and I can't wait for my first Mac.
Andy

Well, the church band is pretty big. Recording live during a service, we could be recording anywhere up to 4 singers, 3 guitar players, 1 bass player, 1 acoustic piano, 1 electric keyboard, and an electronic drum kit. If I really was going to do it right, I'd be using 8 tracks for the drums alone so I could mix the drums. If we were going to "studio" record things, then we could get away with 8 simultaneous tracks and just go back and record additional takes. Not a big deal, obviously, but I'd love to be able to mix each instrument individually, and generally if we're recording live then we wouldn't be able to do that, have to group some of the parts into submixes and try to control it from there.
Basically, just really looking forward to playing around with GB and seeing what I can do.
Oh, and I ordered that cable for my home use Figure I'll get that before my Macbook Pro comes, I'll be jamming right out of the box.
Andy

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