GP — I won a Cort Earth 200 about 18 months ago and have really come to like it. Play it more than I do my Guild D-40. The Cort is a pretty cheap guitar — probably in the $250 US range, though you could check out their Web site (just type in Cort.com and that should bring it up) and it sounds like a dealer might be willing to do an instrument-cash trade that you could live with. Would be worth a try, anyway.

david