Canon - PowerShot S2 IS Digital Camera Review

I love my Canon PowerShots!  The Canon PowerShot S2 IS was supposed to be an easier to use version than what I already had.  The pictures it produced were amazing.  I like how the flash does not pop up automatically, but instead the little indicator on the swivel-out LCD screen flashes red when you need to manually open the flash.  The user-friendlyness of this camera was not as obvious as other Canon models I have owned in the past, and I actually had to read the manual to figure out what a lot of stuff was.  If I hadn't been familiar with Canon already, I'm pretty sure I would have been confused.  And then came the fateful day when I got the black screen...we were at Disneyland so it could have been worse, but I always carry a back-up camera.  The screen went black, and told me that the batteries needed to be changed.  Fine.  I changed the batteries, took two pictures and the screen went black and told me to change the batteries again.  I thought the extra batteries were bad, maybe, it was possible I guess.  So I purchased new batteries.  Same thing.  I took two pictures and the screen went black.  I tested the old batteries, the spare batteries and the newly purchased batteries in my other camera, and they all worked fine.  I finished the trip with the other camera.  I Googled the problem when I got home and discoverd that I wasn't the only one who had experienced the black-screen-of-death.  So I called Canon to see what they were going to do about it since the camera was a mere 4 months young.  They offered to fix it...for $100 plus the cost to ship it to them.  Right now it's the most expensive paperweight I own, even though it would be totally worth the money to fix it.