Does it give you an indication of the shutter speed and apeture it's going to use in Automatic mode? If it does note what it is indoors. If it's at 1 second it may just be too dark for a nonflash picture. I did notice reading the specs of this camera that it's min. shutter speed is one second and it's ISO is 100. So indoors it's possible it's just not able to do a long enough exposure to get an image though it would have to be pretty dark. Not to be a camera snob but my advice would be to dump it and move up to a Powershot A## series (or a Digital Rebel if you have a little more $$ to spare)