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David,
I went through a Lomography phase a couple of years ago and had a proper haul including a Holga, Smena, LC-A (with + adapter and wide abgle lens), Coloursplash Flash, RingFlash ... even the hipshot bag (yup im a sucker for nice packaging and marketing).
I'd been slowly losing my love for photography because of digital photography perfection and harked to the much more experimental, tempremental and fun art of film photography.
Don't buy cameras straight from Lomography.com - you'll pay through the nose for them. Try getting the same cameras on ebay - New or used.
You can control lightleaks to a relevant degree by making sure your Holga is masked-up with electrical tape if you find it is letting in lots of light - its a cheap shite plastic camera after all - what else do you expect.
The joy of film, old or plastic cameras is that the results are very unpredictable! Sometimes you'll get a run of masterpieces within a film, sometimes you'll end up throwing a whole film of negs away.
I found myself back in love with photography, shooting with film had taught me to take shots again and to be more experimental.
I found that developing film was costing me a fortune so i'm now shooting digital again but in a much more creative way :)