Another vote for the Taurus PT-1911. There is a thread here on these outstanding pistols and everyone who has purchased one can't say enough good things about them...including me. $585 for a 1911 model 45 with about $1500 worth of custome features is hard to beat. Ported, polished, skeleton hammer and triggers, adjustable sights, ambi-safeties are only a few of the mods you get with this gun. I bought new Kimber couple of years ago and the Taurus is 50% more gun. The Taurus never jams and the Kimber couldn't dig through a clip full without a jam or two. Kimbers are way over-rated and Taurus are way under-rated.
Check one out and you WILLbuy it.