personally , I need a new camera too, mine is a 9 year old Olympus C-2500 with only 2.5Mpixels, and the only memory card I have is a 8mb one, it can only contain 13 pictures so I have to transfer the pictures on the computer really often.
But the pictures aren't that bad, and it have a cool macro function that allows to make some close pics of little details ( example here ) , I think when you'll go buy your camera, just make sure it can makes good pictures at very close range!