Not sure about this camera yet

My wife and I got the DSC-H9 last week, finally retiring our 3.0M Cybershot. We printed off 30 or so pics yesterday, and we were very disappointed. We are not professional photographers, but we do take lots of pics, and we were expecting very clear pictures from this camera.
As we are not experts, most of our pictures were taken in Auto program mode, (idiot proof, right?), but the pictures all came out a little grainy, and out of focus. Before you question it, the camera was set for auto focus, and 8M pics.
We are a sony family (handy cam, camera, dvd player, tv, etc), and have never had a problem before, so we have not made up our mind on this yet. We are going to try 2 things:
1. Take our photos to be developed so where else.
2. If that doesn't help, take the camera back and exchange it for another and see if ours now is just a dud.

I'll post another review after we do those.