Underwhelmed with the 60D - is it me, or did I get a dud?

Hi BAK,

My apologies if I've wasted your time and that of the other folks here. I'm not a pro, and obviously know a lot less than most on this forum. I thought this was an appropriate place to ask my questions. I did RTFM, but I find it very hard to understand and having reread some pages multiple times, it's obvious that some things passed me by.

As for the zoom creep, yes, I've never had a lens with this much zoom before, and I don't like having to keep it locked. I just wanted to know if this is normal for that lens, or if mine is worse than usual. Apparently it is not.

I did get some great suggestions and ideas from people, and really appreciate it. Will try the camera out with these in mind tomorrow. I did test the fps as suggested, and the camera does run slow - unless I am again misunderstanding something, when I set everything as suggested, the fastest I get is 5 frames in almost 2 seconds. Maybe it's the card, maybe it's the camera, but if I can't get it to work for me, I'll just return it and stick with what I know.

Again, thanks to everyone for their advice and for bearing with me. Please let me know if these kinds of questions are inappropriate (or annoying), and I will refrain from posting here again.