BC337 is a widely available and cheap transistor, add a couple of resistors and ten minutes with a soldering iron and you're sorted! Raidoshack has everything you need
Same thing with me. I have no idea what I'm doing or know what I'm looking at. Lol. I don't own a soldering tool either and know one at work does either
No, but these days it's so easy to run parallels with a version of windows. I'm a Mac-only kind of guy, but all of my tuning work is on PC-based programs, so I use the Parallels + Windows setup all the time.