Wow, thanks everyone for your suggestions.  I should try the nettie pot, but I haven't been able to find one in my CVS, do you know where to buy them?  I ended up taking some cold medicine, tylenols cold medicine, but I forgot that it was a nasal decongestant so I spent the entire day in the bathroom blowing my nose.  So I stopped taking that and bought some thing called "Soothers" that are like cough drops but they have echinacea and Vitamin C in them, and they have been great, I think i am addicted to them now.  And I didn't mean that vitamin supplements have been proven not to work, just Airborne, I guess I should've written that differently.  Anyway, thanks again for all your advice, the lemons and limes ****tail seems interesting, maybe I will do that next time!

I'm a big fan of Mucinex-it seems to loosen everything up for me.  Also for scratchy throats, a spoonful of honey really feels good going down-it kinda coats the throat.