steve's digicams has good reviews:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/stylus300.html
it doesn't look like it has full manual controls, but you'd rarely use those anyway. the shot to shot delay of 4 seconds seems a little long for me, but my canon s-30 is probably only sligthly faster. the weather resistance is a feature i looked for but wasn't available when i brought mine. on the other hand, i have a nice padded weather proof lowe pro pouch for it that works nicely, so it really hasn't been much of an issue. i'm not sure i would choose a camera based solely on "weather resistance". it's not "water proof" so you can't drop in a stream anyway (i once did this to an slr - but hey it survived). good luck.
p.s. thanks for the mazama party.