Hi DE SOuth
I have Band-in-the Box and it probably works wonders.
I needed something that was simple, required little reading of a manual, something that I could create tabs, read other artists tabs (there are thousands of tab-tunes you can learn from, scales, exercises, riffs, blues, jazz, rock, whatever.
I use
Guitar Pro 5. check this one out before spending a fair bit of money.
GRP5 is very user friendly.
Regards
John