Confused about keyboard choices for MIDI/GB??

I'm a guitar player (well, in a very loose sense i can be called a player) and want to learn to play some keyboard while playing around with garage band. i want to do the hammond B3 sound, more than a piano sound. i'm hoping to get some advice here about a MIDI keyboard. i'm considering either a casio WK series, an Maudio 61 or 88, or maybe even something like a novation or roland A37.
as i understand it, a "standalone" like the casio would allow me to easily take the keyboard over to a friend's house for a jam session, while the MIDI controller style would need to have a computer, speakers, etc. transported along with it. correct? this may be a big advantage for the casio.
I see a lot of comments about the feel of the keys on different keyboards, and a number of criticisms of the casio feel in particular. but, how much difference is this really going to make to a rookie? there are some $150 guitars out there that are pretty nice, and while an $800 guitar is certainly nicer, i sound equally bad on both. is the feel/quality of the keys going to be a limiting factor? are the "pros" going to be the ones who really benefit from investing in higher quality boards like the roland?
I appreciate any information and advice.

Yes, 37 keys is not enough if you want to learn to play organ properly. If the Ozonic had 61 keys as well as everything it already has, it would in my opinion be the perfect controller and audio interface for the bedroom studio.
I'm a singer with some guitar ability who can find the chords on a keyboard one-handed; I never developed much facility with two-handed playing despite a couple of years of class piano in music college.
I got the Ozonic because I need something affordable and compact and I liked the idea of having the audio interface and the controller keyboard in one unit with FireWire.
D. T., I think you are right. Look into 5-octave, 61-key controllers. You can play the vast majority of everything you'll need on a keyboard that size.
By the way, up until the time of Mozart, Beethoven, and possibly Chopin, pianos had only five octaves. So you can play most classical music on such a keyboard as well.
And today, most organs, whether Hammond or real cathedral pipe organs, use 5-octave manuals.

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