hm, i hate to say it: barney, i think you may be right about that

damn. so it's noise in my pictures and noise in my videos now

darn. they could have at least muted the mic in the moment of shooting. it's really disturbingly loud. well yes, removing the noise afterwards is a good idea, have to edit the videos anyways(dramatically reduce in size, any tips regarding cutting down size without real loss of "information" using virtualdub? codec hints?) so i guess editing sound file isnt that a biggie. still sucks though.
haha funny, i just read your edit, should have read it earlier as i almost completely repeat your edit

yeah i have two cams now (well actually i lied all the time, the a620 wasnt mine, it was my girlfriend's

) but bringing two (not really pocketsized) cams to a concert and a tripod, well, i suppose they wont even let me enter the event

but for other things this will be the solution, yes
