Thanks to all for all the good suggestions. Ok, sounds like, at least so far, Soundforge's the 'all around' favorite here.
Perhaps some of you audio engineering experts here could share which specific 'post production' audio editing software 'features/techniques' (track normalizing, eq types, effect types, etc) you recommend using to ENHANCE (sweeten) the sound of 2 track audio recorded song (wav)files. Thanks in advance.
Scott