Digital camera hell

When John and I were in Portland last month, we bought a new digital camera. It's an Olympus Stylus 720sw and comes with all kinds of nifty features like being waterproof to 10 feet and shockproof to 5 feet. It's small enough to put in your pocket, it has a large LCD screen, and boasts 7.1 megapixels. The folks at Olympus would have you believe that this little camera all but does your laundry. Unfortunately, the image quality is somewhere between ass-like and horribly ass-like. It has image stabilization, but you have to use the blinding flash to really get that to work and without the flash the image quality is horrible in indoor settings. So now we've got a very fancy, very expensive camera that we can't stand. Why did we buy it, you ask? Well, we wanted a digital camera with more megapixels than our older Canon and the fact that the Olympus is shockproof to 5 feet was pretty hard to pass up. To make matters worse, there are about a million of these babies for sale on eBay and elsewhere, going for about half what we paid for it. *sigh*