Dang, you guys finally got me very curious about this... I had a buddy who moved away to Georgia and left a treasure hunt for us with little clues hidden all over the city. Ever since then, I've been itching to do something like this. After reading the thread (finally) that Mark made with the web based script, I think I want to take the dive.

Do you guys have any recommendations on equipment? Are the geocaching.com forums trust worthy and would you buy from them? eBay? I don't need one that replaces my PDA or phone, just something that won't suck.