Connecting an old piano keyboard to garageband

I have an "old" Yamaha (PSR-280) electric piano/keyboard which we bought
around (I would guess) 12 years ago.
On the back of my mac (near to all the USB sockets) there are two round plug holes,
one with a headphone symbol and the other with a symbol of a circle with two
triangular arrows pointing into this circle,
Out of all the sockets I would GUESS that this would be the only one that MAY serve
for the connection to the piano keyboard!??
The PIANO has two basic round plug holes
(larger but similar to those on the mac) that say: "phones/output" and the other "sustain"
Then there are two other round sockets that each have 5 pinholes that are termed
"MIDI - IN - OUT" (apologies for my lack of knowledge in naming the plug types)
At this stage I just wanted to know if its worth even trying to connect it to garageband on my mac
before trying to hunt down all the necessary cables and adaptors etc to make it possible
or whether I am wasting my time??
Any advice very welcome
Thank you
Mark

Thanks for your response the other day...
I tried connecting with a cable but no sound comes through.
I went to "sound" in system preferences and the sound meter
seemed to indicate that something was going through because
the meter would jump whenever I hit a key on the piano. I also noticed
that the the meter would stay lit for a couple of seconds each time I hit
a note so even if the sound was coming through I suspect I would have
the same problems with notes getting "stuck" as the person with the post below
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2011312&tstart=0
Thanks isteveus, I will keep persevering...

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