Found out that it wasn't capable of a memory stick (which is what a camcorder needs to take still pictures)  after doing some more research. So I took it back and purchased a Hitachi with a tripod, bag, 2 chargers/battery, 4 discs (its one of those mini dvd's) and also came with a 128 mb SD card (which i'll upgrade soon)

I took a few pics and plugged it into the comp just to make sure it was going to work and liked the functionality alot more then the Sony, that thing's got 100 different programs to do a 100 different things. This Hitachi just plugs in and you can easly drag/drop your images or video directly to the hard drive (I love simple!)

This one was also $50 less then the Sony

Thanks for the input WM