Mooshu_Beef you rule!!
See, I have a nice Cannon camera, a PowerShot SD800 IS.
When I turn on macro, and go up close, and take a pic, it's bad.
Why?
Because the macro doesn't work well up close IMO.
When I take xmods pics it does that little green square where it's focused, I just follow to where I want the focus, and it works fine.
Nice write up/essay.