I see the sticky comparing different versions of LE, but I'm not that advanced yet.  I'm an old Pro Audio user.  So my questions are:

1. How is "Home Studio" different from "SONAR Home Studio"?
2. How is "Music Creator" different from either/both of these?

I'm basically looking for the lightest (least resource intensive) Cakewalk audio/sequencer software that is stable and designed/works with 32-bit Windows 7 Starter.  The person I bought SONAR LE from told me my computer will crash with less than 2gb of memory.  I want to go light.

Off-hand, the version of Pro Audio I used to use did everything I wanted except real-time effects and extensive audio editing, for which I used Cool Edit.

Thanks!

I run SONAR Home Studio 6 on my XP computer with only 2 GB of memory. No problems with crashing at all.
Music Creator 6 is the latest low-cost DAW from Cakewalk and works well with Win 7, 32- or -64 bit.
Don't be put off by it's price; you can do just about anything you want with it, with a good audio interface. 

Number of tracks totally you can have in a project and FX effects built into the DAW not as many and lower amount of recording speeds that can be used and not advanced options are both in the LE version (lite) and Music Creator 6.

And, IIRC, you can not buy SONAR Home Studio anymore, the closest similar is SONAR X2 Essential.
And, basicly, you can not buy a Cakewalk product from a previous user and use it "legally" or get it registered.

But if you buy some BOSS equipment or something that give the Sonar LE version with it, then you probably do not have X2 or X1 but still may be getting the 8.5 version. I have that also but I have not installed it because I still am using Sonar 7. I should look up that disk and actually look at it once. It came with the BOSS guitar thingy I bought. Bye then back later! The reason being that I am not sure if LE versions have patches for them, I think not right now.