Foobar2000 is free, and an excellent player, but the initial setup is probably pretty daunting for someone who professes to not like computer audio.
You can get Windows Media Player to play FLAC by adding a CODEC. A codec is basically a file or program that tells your media player how to decode FLAC, since FLAC is a Loss-Less compressed format.
I've not used this one, but here is a quick guide I found doing a Google search for you.
http://www.pristineclassical.com/More/FLAC-WMP.htmlSee if that helps.