Is the $300 Z612 that good or the $1000, w/ Lenses, Nikon 40D that lame

I bought the Z612 in Oct '06 and have loved it for what I paid for it. The pics were great. It is rough in a few ways but the photo quality was unreal for the price. I upgraded in June '07 to a Nikon 40D w/ 28-135mm and 75-200mm lenses and paid $1100. I then compared the two cameras directly. The Nikon was much fast and sweet to operate BUT the small less refined Kadak CRUSHED the Nikon in all but close up photo quality. The Nikon will need maybe as much as a 400mm lens to beat this little Kadak at its own game. I wonder what this will cost. Some reviews have comment on the lack of refinement and some auto-focus noise. So what !! this thing is a zoom camera and for its price and even double it absolutely excels at taking zoom pics.