I'll help you out if you let me ... that's all I can do.
Aikidonna, I mentioned it in some other thread some time ago:
The format of the audio CD may not matter if you have the right equipment to play your audio. If it's made in Japan and I mean MADE in Japan ... not something like a Sony that's assembled in Mexico; then most likely it will play any format (well, other than MP3 because that's different compression).
The PAL format is for Europe/Asia for video ... for that you need different equipment.