Welcome, and nice to see an experience like yours... I think you'll enjoy your to-be Digilux3 ... seems you are accustomed to use zooms... in the case you could avoid zooms...
... consider that Leica has ANOTHER interesting Digital Camera...
... in this forum You can find a Netherlander like You that can help You with some good considerations about... (
Jaap... that's for You... easier to convince someone in local language...)