My dad ran into the same problem. I was never really pleased with the no flash to begin with and I have heard that the captures have pretty crappy battery life. I guess if you invested several hundered dollars in the no flash you should at least get something out of it. It just kinda irritated me that when my dad bought his no flash they were over $400 and now they want like another 175 to fix it or like you said 125 to upgrade.