Every effect must be rendered?

Been combing the forums for some time looking for an answer.
I've captured about 10 mins of HD footage from my HDR-FX7. I can drop my clips right in the time line with no rendering needed; however, any effect added needs to be rendered, even something as simple as a border. Naturally this is creating a great deal of frustration and I'm ready to go back to Vegas...
This seems so basic, but I don't know what to do.

Trust me, everyone goes through this stage of frustration, you just need to get over it and accept that some of these things need to be tolerated to get the advanced capabilities Final Cut gives you. As to your second question, FCE doesn't work with MP3 files. You should first convert it to AIFF.
Look over this link and see if it helps you at all with this process:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1992995&tstart=0
Use the part of my answer that begins with +"Then, convert it..."+
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