Probably not much help to you, but may help some-one els ein future wanting to do the same
I found getting a free program to do it well in XP to be a pain, but in Ubuntu (I'm guessing same tools are available in other distros) it's really easy!
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-rip...p3-or-ogg.html
http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/the-easy-...-audio-to-mp3/