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I should let you know that I don't have first hand experience with the Canon Digital Rebel EOS in this matter, though my sister (who is a professional landscape photographer) just bought one.
My sister's husband is also a photographer, and a real electronic gadget guy. He did all the camera research (on dpreview.com) when they bought their EOS. He told me that Canon put the spot metering on the next model up in price to give people a reason to upgrade. Otherwise all their customers would just get the EOS, if it had everything on it. I'm basing my comments about this model on what he told me.
He said that competitors to the Canon Digital Rebel EOS that do have spot metering are the Nikon D-1 and the Pentax "First D", though they are slightly more in price.
Another artist friend of mine is currently researching the Canon Digital Rebel EOS and just dowloaded the manual. She is specifically intererested in their different metering options. I'll let you know what she finds out.
When I tried out my sister's Canon Digital Rebel EOS I liked everything else about it: no shutter release delay, fast focusing time in low light, fast "motor drive" in taking lots of images in rapid succession, large image sensor for good quality, etc.
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