Need opinion on buying dslr?

I'd like to buy a dslr and currently torn between canon 1000d vs nikon d3100.
If i were to buy canon 1000d, my budget allows me to get 1000d kit + 50mm 1/8.
but if i were to buy canon, i'd probably be stuck with kit lens forever.

i'd like to use my slr to make money like send it to stock photos or something.
is specs differences between the two model really makes a differences? Because i hear it's lens that makes the difference.beside, 1100d has been announce replacing 1000d. Which won't be available here half a year after it's launch.

help?

Added (1). Ops sorry mistake there. I meant if i were to buy nikon, i'd probably be stuck with kit lens forever

I own the 1000D and it's an excellent camera. I've had mine for over a year with excellent results.
The main thing it doesn't do is video. If that's a concern to you there's always the 500D, which I also own, another excellent camera.

If this will be your first dslr you may want to consider a short course, some serious reading and lots of practice with what ever camera you choose. These cameras are loaded with gimmicks and don't do all those "effects" that we find so often on compact cameras.

I'm a canon man, but the 1000D is a pretty long in the tooth model now, even at launch it's combination of a 10Mp sensor and Digic II processer made it little more than a mildly revamped EOS 400, a model now 5 years old.

To make matters worse it inhereted the AF system of the even older EOS 350D, it just seemed to me to be a parts bin special, built to a price to get folk on the ladder.

I've never been a nikon user but their D3100 in particular seemed a more thoughtful camera for the market segment and with more recent technology, better screen, better AF etc.

The 1100D looks like a sensible upgrade from Canon, but costs will be initially high, I would bypass the 450 and 500 and go straight to the 550D, if you do need video then it has more useful exposure modes and a wider choice of frame rates in HD mode, alltogether a better thought out camera than the 500D. You will probably be able to pick up a 550D for the same money as a 1100D before long, and the 550D is just the better camera. You might not need the resolution but it's always handy to have it.

The kit lens alone (the 18-55 IS vs the older far inferior 18-55 II) makes the 550D worth the extra.