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hi ttg,
thanks for nipping by and for your interest.
well, after spending aaaages searching on tinternet, i eventually found a site where other people had had the same problem, and one of the solutions was to go into settings and change where you want to store the pics.
so i did that and wuhhh hooo! yaaay! problem solved, camera is now working fine.
and even after going back into settings to undo the changes its still ok.
so there you go! simplez!
easy when you know how eh?! lol ;o)