Some answers here might help
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/open-discussion/317114-digital-camera-choices.html
I asked a similar question recently.
I ended up buying a fuji finepix FJ420
I don't recommend it but it was seriously cheap. It cost less than 60 euros.
It takes pictures slightly faster than my old canon and the internal battery is a step up from all of those AA batteries I used to go through; but the auto-dooh-dah-all-singing-and-dancing-piss-you-off-hold-that-'king-button-down behaviour of the camera really gets on my wick!