We're mostly Xara users here.

Maybe one of the members can create a logo as a PDF file which you can open in Illustrator.

But you should expect to pay for the design. We frown on giving work away.

I created a series of articles a million years ago called Logos for the Design Challenged. The series is still on the Unleashed.com website http://www.unleash.com/gary/logo/ Maybe you can get some ideas there.