Bouncing around you really get no where, i kept bouncing with Ideas of powerfc and doing all these other mods, but just do one a atime happens alot quicker then you expect trust me
why not get a micro 4/3 camera? Its close to a DSLR, small so you can bring anywhere and there's heaps of lens out there for it now. I shoot with my EPL1 and picked it up for 400 :D now im saving for a pancake lens that costs 400 LOL