I appreciate your reply, Phade, but these are the first problems that I have had with the camera and it is over a year old. For what I use it for, it is worth paying only $100.00, I was just wanting to see if someone had figured out somethng about it. I have my Game Watcher 2.1 on the same tree as the 1.3 was and just this weekend I got 221 photos of bucks getting ready to shed velvet and fawn losing their spots. I use it as a teaching tool for my daughter who wants to take her first deer this year,and this allows her to see deer in different seasons and situations, so all in all I'm not totally dissatified with the camera. For a camera in this price range it is easy to use without reading the manual, it uses SD cards which are relatively cheap compared to other media and it takes (when it does) very good pictures. And about the flash problem, I clean the photo cell and IR dectoctor and my 1.3 seems to working fine again. Thanks for the input.