"That's what I figured, but if the outcome is known, how is this really free-will?"
Very simple. Every action or thought(the outcome), whether good or bad, moral or immoral is already known by God before it happens.
I'm not disputing here whether God is truly omnipotent, ominiscent and omnisapient; I'm simply saying that your logic is faulty.
God gives man free will to do as he chooses. Man behaves. God knows of his behavior before hand. God does not interfere with man's behavior (outcome), yet he knows of it before the event. That's all there is to it.
We agree that God knows what will happen.
I'm not saying God interferes with man's behavior, I'm saying God makes man's behavior, because God made man, and everything else.
I don't think we can really apply our logic to what God does, because we are so limited when compared to God, and all that He can do.