What camera would be good for me?

1) What is your budget? How much money can you spend right away, and do you think you can get more money to invest in the future? 350-600

2) What experience do you already have with cameras? Have you ever even used one before? Have you helped your friend out with his camera? Have you owned your own? Moderate DSLR experience, I know GoPro's like nobody else, I have never filmed with a "vx1000 style camera"

2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc)
Monopod, Tripod, Shotgun Mic.
4) What are you planning to shoot and how do you want to use your camera? Are you going to use this with the sole purpose of shooting skiing? or do you think you might try other stuff as well (movies, documentaries, short films, etc)
Ski, Skateboard edits.
5) Do you want a camera that you can hand to your friends, that could or could not have film experience, and let them shoot you? or will you be doing all the filming?
Mostly me filming but a little of friends.
6) When filming skiing, how do you tend to shoot? (follow cams, leave it on record on a tripod and hike, film from a tripod, etc)
Follow cams, Tripod
7) What computer do you currently have/use to edit (if not currently editing, what would you most likely use)? If you can provide specifics, such as hard drive space, RAM, processor size, that would be great.
HP G62, 3GB ram, 2.20 dual core processor
7) What program do you currently edit on? How familiar are you with it (1- just learning; 10- I can make tutorials and know the keyboard layout) Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5