Can't sleep tonight, so while I was up.... did some digging and found this:
http://www.noteburner.com/
You can DL the shareware version, but it only lets you record up to 3 minutes of music. I am going to buy the full version, it works great and I won't have to use up tons of blank CDs in order to convert my itunes library so I can use the flash drive. Basically what it does, is it allows you to burn the music from itunes to your hard drive, by passing the CD step all together. Pretty nifty!