How big a card did you get? What was the size of the original card?
The S9500 comes with a card which is almost useless- 256K from memory.
And you can get both a Compact Flash and an XD card- so if you fill up one you can just switch over to the other one.
I've got this one- $40 from Dick Smith. There are cheaper, but this one has a good range of cards which it supports.
The S9500 supports two card types; this reader will also read pix from a camera phone (with an adaptor which comes with the phone).