Dear kpfromdc,
Welcome to TechSoup.
A great resource for learning about inexpensive donor databases is Idealware's "Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems" It's a 2-part report that reviews 30 inexpensive systems, and then goes into great detail about the ones they identified as their top 10. Among the features it covers is whether the databases include integrated online payment processing, integration with QuickBooks, and ticketing.
There have been a couple of previous discussions here about integrated fundraising/ticketing systems (and systems that are separate but talk to each other). They'll provide the names of some vendors to look at, but no details:
http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/p/20889/20889.aspx
http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/p/9213/9213.aspx
Once you identify a few systems that look worthwhile, search for them here -- they may have been discussed already.
Robert