Lisa, I got a Canon G2 digital camera (4 megapixels) in October and still haven't really gotten past the automatic setting stage because I haven't used it much.
My workhorse optical system is Nikon. I have a 5005 and an N60 body with several different lenses, but I keep my 70-210mm lens on almost all the time and it's my lens of choice for portrait photography because you can maintain more of a distance from the subject and it's easier to get natural-looking expressions that way.
Digital cameras still have a shutter-lag problem, in that there's more time that elapses between pressing the shutter and actually taking the photo than there is in an SLR. Since expressions are important to me that's a major drawback. But I know lots of people who love their digitals and use them constantly. If you're not accustomed to an SLR it would probably be easier for you to make that adjustment.
Not that this gives you any assistance in making a decision, but at least it's something more to think about.
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