Help me decide please

I am getting a little back on my taxes this year so I am going shopping for some telescope accessories. First on my list was a TV Ethos eye piece. After that I wanted to spend some money on equipment for deep sky imaging. Right now I own a unmodified canon rebel xti also known as a 400D. I bought the adapters required to mount to my telescope. My telescope happens to be still on order (EdgeHD 1400) so I haven't tested this potential set up yet. However, I am also strongly considering the Orion StartShoot Pro and I feel that it has some positives over the dslr camera I have. For one I won't have to modify my dslr, second is that it can do very long exposures which would eliminate much of the stacking I'd need to do. I see some used for under $1,000.00 but I don't know anything about deep sky astrophotography (yet). I really could use some advice on this. Should modify my dslr and use that? Use it unmodified? Or should I go ahead and grab the StarShoot Pro? Is it even a good device? I'd like to spend less than $1,000. However if there is a DSCCD device that is really outstanding for just a little more I'd be willing to spend extra. I bought this telescope for deep sky observing and photograhpy equally.

One further question if you don't mind. I (will) have the CGE-Pro mount which I understand is really accurate. Do I still need a object tracker for this or would my mount be good enough?

Thanks in advance for any help you could provide.

-Mike

Michael,
You lucky dog! I have the opposite situation, and will be paying through the nose this year at tax time.

I can't comment on the Starshoot from personal experience, but I have seen some nice images taken with it. I know it would make me sick to modify my DSLR. I would much rather get a dedicated astro camera and keep the DSLR whole, but that is just my preference. As to the guiding question... your CGE should be quite accurate, but nearly all mounts require guiding for any long exposure work. It is possible with many decent mounts to get a couple of minutes without guiding, but that is about it (in my experience). I think you would be happy with a dedicated astro camera and a small autoguider with a guide scope or off-axis guider. That is my 2-cents worth.

Good luck with your purchases.
Cheers,
Tyler