Well, last Christmas I got this:
http://www.wacom.com/intuos/6x8.cfm

and I'm basically pleased as punch with it. No problems and it works well. One problem, since I'm right handed, is drawing on the far right of the tablet area, which sometimes activates the zoom/scroll bar in the upper right corner. That could probably be disabled, but it hasn't been that big of a pain.

I can use just the pen when working around in photoshop elements and it works nicely. But using a mouse for web surfing and similar applications is still a bit quicker.

CR