There's a few of the 18-200's floating around. Well within my price range too.
I must say I'm still leaning towards the 80-200 f2.8 push pull. Apparently a pro lens in it's time. I would like to be able to use this lens for surf photography and also my kids sport, so the fast aperture is a great bonus. I guess I'd settle for f4, but 5.6 just seems too slow for using in crop mode (so, for example, the 70-300 4-5.6 in DX mode would be 450mm; panning around at that zoom would require very fast shutter speeds).