Hmm, that 1000IS doesn;t look too bad, I saw a couple referbs for under $100.
I absolutley do not want anything with a lithium ion battery, if I had all my gear that way I'd need dozens of chargers not to mention replacing batteries all the time as they age.
My wife has a nice camera, a Canon S3 IS, its our big camera we take anywhere, a neat feature of it is it will take pictures while its taking video so places where picture camera were ok but video isn't it was a nice stealth video camera, take a couple stills to make the flash and they never knew it. They have revised it up to like an s6 now but switched to the lithuim ion so were going to hang on to the current one for a while.
I'm wanting somehting I could mount on my bike handlebars too so if I would crash and break it its not a big deal.