optical zoom is what you need to be more concerned about with a point and shoot digi cam...

the higher the better....

wayne is right about MP... heck i've got a nikon d70s... it's only a 6.1 mp camera...

so unless you are wanting to do resize the picture... whether it be croping and cutting or blowing up... mp doesn't matter.

chante had gotten me a kodak once... it was a zx10 or something like that... it was actually a really really great point and shoot.... and there was one above it that was like 12x optical zoom that also took amazing pictures...