frosted minny minks

i have a palm with a bluetooth GPSr which is really nice for geocaching. but to be a little more rugged/durable, especially with kids, i recently bought a used garmin v for geocaching. this also gives me a basemap. when i stand in a wide open field on a clear sunny day with both, the accuracy of the palm is within 10 feet, while the garmin is 30-50 feet (with WAAS enabled). this concerns me because as a newbie i need to be a lot closer than 50 feet to find a cache! would buying a garmin add-on antenna improve my accuracy, or would it only make my signal "stronger" (i'm not sure if that makes any technical sense)? maybe antennas are only meant to circumvent impenetrable object like car roofs and it would do me no good. any thoughts or advice? is the stock garmin GA 26C antenna pretty good (for $15), or are there better ones? thanks all!

thanks brian (and jim)! it is selling for $60 (with dated software), so that's what caught my eye. i also like the fact that it has rudimentary turn-by-turn and geocaching, compared to the garmin 12, for example (which someone is selling for $30 ). i realize it is an old machine; mainly i wanted to avoid the situation of "heck - you spent $60 on that? you could have gotten XYZ at walmart for $75 and it's 100 times better." but it sounds like $60 is a reasonable deal, especially for a beginner

miragee, is there any organized forum section dealing with users' hardware reviews? i'm looking at a used garmin v, but am unable to find any comments on it (other than 6 year old product reviews when it was introduced at $600). i couldn't search "garmin v" in the forums since the search engine balks at terms fewer than 3 characters. i'm new here, and figure there must be many knowledgeable people using each model.

i think for newbies (speaking primarily from my 4-cache experience), there might be some intimidation involved, moreso than pride. i don't care if everyone knows i didn't find something, but i want to lay somewhat low at first and not clutter logs with inexperienced ramblings and rookie mistakes., especially if the hiders get emails every time someone logs. maybe i just didn't look hard enough. but now that i've read this thread (most of it, anyway) i'll be sure to use the DNF as a vital component of the system.