cut / insert and kill yank

[Jason M. LaPenta]

Hi,

I would like to start using emacs over xemacs, but first I need to have 
cut/paste AND kill/yank. I'm thinking i can do this by binding the 
'insert-register' and 'copy-to-register' to the S-insert C-insert keys, 
but this isn't working. It would also be nice to have the cursor goto 
the end of the inserted text as well

(global-unset-key [C-insert])
(global-unset-key [S-insert])
(global-set-key [C-insert] 'M-x copy-to-register 1)
(global-set-key [S-insert] 'M-x insert-register 1)

also how do you unmark, ie stop marking. withour starting a new mark?

Thanks