Just another quick thought about the Melodyne fix. It really isn't that hard (and likely much easier than using a pitch wheel). ll you have to do is...
a) Import the audio file
b) Select the clip and enable Region FX > Melodyne (if you have X3... otherwise you could use V-Vocal but that would be different)
c) Just select all the blobs (Ctrl A...) and nudge them up or down until the first note of the clip matches a tuned note on the scale.
If you sung the melody in tune with the first note your work is done... otherwise you could use the detect features to automagically make all the notes snap into place using a chromatic scale or an appropriate diatonic scale/mode or if it is a short passage or only a few notes are out of tune you could just select the out of tune blobs and fix them.
Clone the track (actually you should clone the track before doing the pitch correct so the original is intact) and bounce the corrected version so you have your hummed track in perfect pitch. Then if you want a MIDI version to use as a starter you can just create a new MIDI track, select and drag the corrected audio track and kablammo... your melody will now be in the PRV ready to use.
If there is minimal note by note correction this whole process could be done in a couple minutes.
This is all theoretical on my part though because I haven't actually tried Melodyne yet (because I'm busy with other stuff... but really should because it looks cool) and am only basing that on the tuts I have read/watched but it really should be extremely simple.
So yeah... starting your recordings at a proper pitch from now on will help but for stuff you already have recorded that's how you can easily fix them up. I recommend watching for Karl Rose's SWA X2/X3 vids to go on sale because he is very thorough in describing this and most other aspects of Sonar X2/3. I picked it, and the Rapture tut, for $20 on sale after doing the Cakewalk survey (so I actually got them both for free with the coupon).
The Cake TV section has some Melodyne vids too that might describe the same procedure.
Anyway... that's just how I would go about things. I'm a little weird and crazy though.
Cheers.