Post Production on a Telephone Recording

Hey everyone,
I'm not actually using Soundtrack, but I figured someone in this forum would know the answer.
I have a telephone recording that I'd like to enhance. While yes, I understand compressed audio is hard to expand, I'm wondering if there's a way to boost it a little without losing too much quality. We are using Audacity.
Any tips?

hi Chris, thanks for the helpful information. Right now the iMac is in the shop, having been verified that is indeed has a working FW buss and ports. I'm bringing my DVC30 video camera (firewire) to the shop this morning to see if the knowledgeable gentleman there can get it working for me. Hopefully so, this is the whole purpose of purchasing the iMac in the first place..
Being a PC person, I had always blaked at anything QuickTime, always going for the WMV version of anything when I visited sites that offered videos to view. Don't know really, prolly from an initial turnoff in the earlier pooting days.
I've just finished another video production run last night with the dying PC. Using Premiere 6.5 I export the edited work as AVI movie, and then the 45 minute video in wmv in 640X768 (768kps), simply converted using Movie Maker which leaves me with a file size roughly in the 300-310 megs size which is OK for my visitors to download. Just simple editing, titling, transitions, colour corrections etc. We're not talking about award winning production work here but after 95 titles, I think it's time I start looking at spicing things up.
I have a friend with FC (E or P) who is going to show me what she's doing with it (I learn better hands on than from a book) and see what the end results look like.. If I can get better visual quality at the same file size, I'll be happy. If the file size comes down and vis qual goes up, I'll be even happier =)
So hopefully, by the time I get home tonight, with iMac in tow, working with the vid camera, I'll at least be able to give iVideo a shot and see if that works for my needs.. might not need to dish out the FCE coins.
Thanks again.

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