Thanks for the advice, the reason I was looking at this particular one was that they are selling at a reasonable price for an "experimenting camera", even for a 7 year old camera its spec is still "good" enough, I downloaded the manual and it seems to do what I want, its the only one on this list I can afford http://hdr-photography.com/aeb.html, Gotta say, the RAW capture is a huge bonus as well,I will give the 5000 a look as well.

I have tried doing it manually but the TZ4 is so compact that it moves if you so much as breathe near it on a tripod and its macro I'd like to play with,