[Dev-C++] character buffering with getch() and gets()

problem 1:
    I'm developing a piddly little program from a learning book, and in my
main(), I've got a statement to get the user's choice from a menu that looks
like this:

choice = getche();

    it takes the '1' character required and successfully activates a
particular function.  Once inside the function, however, I have this input
statement, to prompt for and get some data for the string "title" in a
struct array.

printf( "Book title : " );
gets( catalog[ recordCount ].title );

    Simple, right?  Nope.  The prompt comes up

Book title : 1

    the gets() reads the 1 from the getche() up in the main function...  I
have tried all sorts of odd things, placing getch()'s and getche()'s
after/before statements to clear the buffer, substituted a scanf( "%s",
foo ) for the gets().  Even tried testing to see if there was something in
the buffer with kbhit(), and that comes up negative.  Any idea why this is
happening?

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problem 2:
    any idea how to limit an inputted string to 80 characters and still be
able to read spaces?  I tried the following in my above program and it
screwed things up FAR worse...

scanf( "%80[^\n]", string );

    I assume it didn't work because scanf left the '\n' in the buffer or
something like that...


    Any help is greatly appreciated

                -- Jon
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