Canon PowerShot A530 Digital Camera

I've been using my little camera for 6 months now and continue to have problems with setting it up for shots. I have discovered the settings do not always hold from shot to shot. For instance I'll want to take a shot using the self-timer (which is not all that easy to find to set up) and after taking the shot it may revert back to non-self-timer. The flash setting never stays if you select any other setting and you have to remember to reset it if you need it. It takes great pictures and has good color once you get it set but a lot of time is spent behind the display window fussing with all the buttons. At the time of this writing I am totally frustrated with the camera and will have to take it to a shop because it's in some mode I can't get it off of and is basically unusable. To bad, the camera has great potential.