My oldest had a digital Kodak Easyshare about 7 or 8 years ago. They've come a long way since then but just adding in that she had problems with the Easy Share software in that it always erased her pics from the camera when she uploaded her stuff. I don't know if it gave her the option to delete or not. If it did, it never worked and if it didn't . . . that's just dumb.
My son had a Canon A95 and uh, broke it. It was just an ok camera for $90. Felt more like a glorified toy or something though.
He got money for Christmas and bought a new one. We just happened to be at Best Buy and they had a Samsung SL605 on sale for $70 (reg. $110). They only had one so he bought it and we reviewed it when we got home. It's a keeper. You have to go into a menu for movie mode (rather than just switching a button) and there doesn't seem to be a volume control on the camera for watching movie playback while the movie is still on the camera, but other than that it seems like a great little point and shoot. Easy, intuitive, nothing fancy but does the job.