I do know how to do this with a game port. But because almost no pc's have them anymore, and every new pc has an abundance of USB ports I'd rather stick with that.
This guy accomplished what I'm trying to do:
http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/howto/mind.htm
Problem is I'm not very electronics savvy. I may just need to go with something like this:
http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/joystick/
-Nathan