Okay, I am a newbie, and here's the situation:

I am good at taking outdoor photos, especially using the Sports/Action setting. The photos all come out really great, I love them. They look really professional.

Then there are indoor settings. Well, I'm a high school student, and most of the photos I take indoors are in very bright, white lighting, so they come out pretty well.

What I'm really bad at is when there's a situation where I have to take photos indoors and there's very dim lighting and I hate using flash because it illuminates things on people's faces they don't want seen.

This is compounded when I'm using a big lens (70-300 mm) and I can't hold it properly because I don't like dragging a tripod around and I shake when I hold it 'cause it seems a little heavy or I'm weak, one of those.

This is further compounded when the photos I'm taking are of moving people.

Okay, the real problem was that yesterday I went to the spring concert for my high school and it was inside a dark theater and the lighting they used on the stage was very dim and all the people on stage were moving and dancing. When I looked at the photos today, most of them were soooo blurry, even though I used the Sports/Action setting so there was no flash and to capture motion. Using Adobe's Unsharp Mask filter helped a few photos, but I'm really tired of doing that, so I want to improve my photo-taking ability.

I can't handle manual. There is no way I can get a Nikon D70, and the problem is probably with me anyway. Is there anything I can do? Please help a person who is completely photography illiterate!

Remember: the problem is blurry photos of people. I can handle stationary objects, but not people...especially if they're moving and it's dark and I can't hold the camera still...maybe I'm asking too much for people to give me a magic tip to solve this? Here's a solution: don't take pictures....but I really want to!