Giminee Crickets: Where's the simple captions for images?

So I decided to add one image and one caption below the image to my development site today. I wanted the story to wrap around the image and caption. Figured it wouldn't be too hard. It's now 9 pm and that decision was made early this morning. And I'm still trying to decide what to do -- simply. (Try explaining this to the higher ups. They don't get it!!)

Sinking here...Help??

I'm using cck filefields and imagecache (when needed) for images. Works nicely. I'd love to be able to use this combo and to easily put a caption below an image. But darn if I can't find a simple way to do it that doesn't require a programmer sitting on my lap.

One way I read was to create a content-type for an image and then use nodereference to "connect" it to the node type, in this case, informational (holds copy that won't be removed from site for..well, a long time). I've done that for pdfs but I don't really like the idea for images/captions. I can envision a drop-down menu with fifty photos to select from. Messy.

Another way is to use the title field as the caption and maybe the alt field for photo credit (figured I'd think ahead). But that requires some code like javascript or php -- and where that code would go is beyond me.

So, stuck there.

Then, I do have fckeditor and imce installed, with the fairly new wysiwyg api. I needed that for one instance some time ago; decided to keep it for what if's in the future. More or less..the random photo as it feels like cck imagefield and imagecache give me more control and so I naturally gravitate there when needed.

But, point is, I can use, I guess, yet another module -- image caption -- to add a caption. I'm reading, though, about the problems people using fckeditor seem to having with the install.

So, what are you doing?? I really only wanted to use imce for rare occasions but now, with caption capability, well, I can see use gravitating there. I think the future's in cck but hmmm... how to do those captions.

And concurrently, I have on my mind the eventual use of this add/edit conten form by people who are below non-techies.

Anybody care to opine on this? I'm all ears.