Thanks. I was looking at a Kodak at Christmas, never made up my mind, that had a 10X zoom, 5 meg. Seemed the best of both, but Kodak gets whacked by all the pros (or wanna be pros). Thus continued confusion.
I would check out Sony & Canon. 10x zoom is really good, you will need that at the track. The good pics I took at Texas were all with my Canon 35-70mm lens.