SD600 will not take pictures.

This is my first digital camera, so please bear with me if I leave out any obvious information.

I took the camera out of the box, and put in the included battery. I ordered a combo deal from an online retailer, that included an A-Data 1 GB SD card. I put that in as well. Camera turned on fine, I walked around and snapped multiple frames. When I tried to view the pictures in Playback mode, I received a "NO PICTURES" message. I took out the SD card, and put in the 16 MB card that came with the camera. Snapped a few pictures, put it in Playback mode, same message.

I read the manual's entry about charging the battery first, so I took the battery out and gave it the recommended 1.5 hour charge. Put it back in, put the A-Data card back in, snapped a few frames, same problem. Then I performed a low-level formatting of the card, but this has not helped. In the bottom right corner of the LCD it shows me my remaining picture count, and when a picture is snapped, the number does not change. Any ideas?

*EDIT, excuse me, the message is "No Image".

*EDIT2, D'OH!!!!!! Ignore this post, I'm a moron. I was lightly clicking the trigger, not pressing it in all the way. Sorry about that.

Good that you are learning from your mistakes.

LOL

You know what... I've had friends borrow my camera when we're at a get together and they say they've taken pictures but no more than what i've shot before. Then I realize when I witness it that they slighty push the trigger, the autofocus kicks in indicating something is happening on the camera and they think they are taking the picture. I tell them that they need to push trigger all the way down!

Most P&S cameras are like that. My in-laws have missed great pictures because of that over sight when they bought their first Canon digital. Oh well, we all live an learn.

I've known people who just couldn't get the drift of auto focus, no matter how much I tried to make them understand. The only thing that they could make work was a fixed focus camera, you know, the real "aim and shoot" cameras!