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...or you could get a new Pentax K100D from Amazon for under $400 (after $50 mail-in rebate) with 18-55. With the shake reduction and other features, it's a good in-between from "prosumer" P&S and DSLR. The fact that it takes AA batteries means that if you're out somewhere and battery dies, you aren't screwed. (You can get AA batteries just about anywhere.)
10MP on a point-and-shoot will not have the quality of even a 6MP DSLR if resized. Even though the man pisses me off, Ken Rockwell talks about "the megapixel myth" and I think you'd do well to read the article. (Many prosumer cameras now have hotshoes... and I'd make use of them if indoors and you absolutely, positively MUST have a P&S.)
If you want to grow as a photographer, you'll want a DSLR. If you want to do anything beyond snapshots, you'll want a DSLR. If you want to take photos of wildlife, you'll want a DSLR. If you want to take photos of children who can't sit still, you'll want a DSLR. If you want to get your money's worth out of the camera, you'll want a DSLR. If you want something you can sell on eBay without a major financial loss when you realize you aren't as good as you think you are and it isn't the camera's fault due to limited capabilities, you'll want a DSLR. If you want something you can actually take a photography class with, you'll want a DSLR (and maybe a $50 film SLR body with the same lens mount to go along with it).
If you can't handle /p/ actually having useful advice in regards to your desire to take on "more professional work as a light hobby" and you want to bitch about us in the same breath as /v/, you'll want a P&S.
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