Help With my System Plea

My name is Mike McDonald, Micario here.
I have an antiquated Pentium II 400,92 meg of Ram, XP Pro a Fairly good 5 speaker Quadaphonic, not surround system and a Sound Blaster Li've Value Card. I built my own system about 5 years ago.
I am a musician, guitar player and work a lot with midi and composing.
I recently purchased Finale 2005 - one of the best Music programs out there, and am writing with the intent to sell - both Guitar and small band stuff.
I have a 'human playback feature in my Software for Midi but the guitar still sounds like a piano somewhat and all of the other sounds are similarly off also. I have upgraded to the latest drivers but still get a phony sound. As I write web pages and upload midi files, I'd like better sounds at my end so that I can better write the music.
Does anyone know how I can improve the midi quality without the purchase of a new card. The problem as I see it would be a complete upgrade of my system which is unaffordable, and I believe that improving the sound card wouldn't buy that much in improvement.
Now I do intend to purchase a really good laptop next year when I hit the road, but until then?
Can I get better Synth Drivers?
Hope someone can help - Thanks - Mac

Are you playing back your MIDI files from within Finale? I had a problem (albeit with Finale 3, quite old, I know) which would do exactly that. However when I saved the file, and played it back with, say Windows Media Playe, it would sound Ok. I *think* (sorry, it's been a while since I last used Windows with my SB-Li've!) there's a way to select the WaveTable you want to use (either the internal HW wavetable or the software synthesizer). I don't know if you can currently select the synthesizer to use within Finale also. Antoher thing you could try is the use of soundfonts from the AudoHQ, the hard thing would be to find a suitable soundfont, though I think that synthesizer settings should "do the trick", just to make sure you could ask someone to playback the file and ask them if it sounded like a guitar or a piano.

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