Hey everyone! My girlfriends mom and I are going to buy her the Rebel Xti for Christmas for her. She is kind of strapped for cash right now so I was just putting it on my credit card. So I put in an order to this retarded place called PrefferedPhoto.com and in order to validate it I had to call their number with the emailed order number. So the guy on the line began trying to sell me a bunch of accessories and I kept denying until he offered the retail package because apparently the camera I ordered is in Japanese on the menus....none of which was mentioned in the product description. And after some research I found out that a lot of the cheap Camera+Lens kits that are going for $500 like the one I tried ordering are all international models. A friend mentioned maybe applying English firmware but I also began thinking, wouldn't there just be a language menu I'd have to try and find? I mean would it make much sense to have a camera that only displays a single language? So could someone tell me if I have the correct thinking in this manner or should I just shell out the extra 75-100 dollars for an English one. If it's just a matter of finding the language menu I'm game for a crash course in Japanese.