not that I record things that much, having a crappy sound card it's not really worth having any of the two programs installed.I use Adobe audition 1.5(cool edit pro) it's really simple but also very amateur.well,I had my share of cubase and PT.quite frankly i got a headache when i tried to work them out.
after I read the cubase manual things became pretty simple, but I can't say the same about pro tools, It was rather complicated maybe it's better than cubase I don't know but all I know is there's nothing I looked for that was not found in cubase so I would go with that.