Broken Camera - Bummer

My trusty little Canon Elph is bust! The shutter halfs opens and sticks. Not sure what happened. It sucks, because I have some pictures ready for some fresh posts ... "Well, I Went To School In Olympia", "Sleater-Kinney Road", "My Birthday Party On The Beach" & "Sea Plane Ride To Vancouver Island".

What to do now? Pay for a riduculous expensive repair? Throw in some extra cash for a new one? I think I'll do that. Which one to buy? Research required. All I know is, for a pocket camera I'm not bothered about mega-pixels, since I always shoot on low quality then further compress and resize! .. I want good optics & non-lame white balance control.