Dead for no reason

I have loved this camera for 2 years. Using burst in sport mode I have taken some great action shots of friends sword fights in my reenactment group. Not blurry at all. I've even taken great non-blurry shots from my driver side window while driving at 50-60 mph. But while driving from Florida to Washington State this summer the camera died in South Dakota. I had been recharging the batteries in a recharger plugged into the wall in the hotel room every night. Proper Kodak batteries correct for the camera. The batteries were newly bought for the trip. In S. Dakota I turned the camera on to take a shot out the car window and the camera shut right off again. At the next rest stop I switched to my backup non-rechargeable batteries and same thing. I turned it on, got the set date screen, set the date and the camera shut itself off. Tried to turn it on again and it wouldn't even turn on. Now I'm a heavy camera user. It seems like the camera is sucking all the juice out of the batteries. What a shame. I'm not buying Kodak again. No more rechargeable batteries for me to leave me stranded. Give me a camera that uses plain old AA batteries.