I'm looking at the Xti and D80 as well. I went and held both of them and I have small hands to begin with and to me the rebel felt tiny. I couldn't wrap all my fingers around it. I've heard adding the battery grip helps alot with this but no one seems to have both in stock. From what I've seen the Xti takes a little bit sharper pics but so far I'm leaning towards the D80 as it felt nice in my hand and it offers a few nice goodies like spot metering that the Xti doesn't.