yeah :) i remember pain then i took apart my camera after it crashed to the ground i bought second camera with broken eletronics parts parts. And i had similar mess in my table. I am good in electronics but here i was realy worried how i will put all those things together. So thin wires to weld so thin and small thins so compact. And what i remember how flash light capacitor discharged on my finger Grrrr:037: it felt realy bad :)
I not recomend to take Digital camera to apart if you are not so good in electronics and mechanics and with good memory and big patience :)

lol, my flash charge cap was "only" 300v, so it wasn't that bad. :) Once I saw where the offending gear was (inside the lens tube) I knew for sure it wasn't going back together. Besides, I highly doubt I'll find a replacement gear that's broken (it's soooo tiny!).

No matter though, the camera was old, picture quality was not good by today's standards, etc. My replacement camera (Canon A620 IIRC) is smaller, lighter, has more features, more pixels/resolution, and was wayyy cheaper.

I just thought it was neat that all those parts were stuffed into that case. And believe me, it was stuffed in there!