Budget Camera Recommendations

Hi all,
Our company is going to begin some basic video production (training videos, clips to run in webinars, etc) and I've been tasked with basically creating our entire program from scratch (cause hey, I taught myself illustrator, photoshop and dreamweaver quickly, so why not video editing, right? :P )
I need recommendations on a camera and a workstation or workstation vendor. Best case scenario would be to keep each of those pieces under $1k.
I'm assuming that means an HDV camera to avoid needing to RAID. This will all be done in one room with a fixed camera and we'll never be outputting HD format (no real reason to). Like I said, I'm pretty much starting from scratch here. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Ok, I've hopefully settled on the 500 (need budget approval) and now I'm pricing systems:
PROCESSOR Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor.
OPERATING SYSTEM Windows Vista® Home Basic, Service Pack 1
MONITOR 22inch E228WFP Wide Flat Panel Monitor.
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs
OPTICAL DRIVE DVD BURNER
VIDEO CARD 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3650
HARD DRIVE 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
SECONDARY HARD DRIVE 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
FLOPPY OR MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive
MODEM & WIRELESS No Modem Option
FIREWIRE IEEE 1394 Adapter with Cable
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
I can build that out for under $900; that should be adequate to run PPro, yes?

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