Hi, the last one does seem to be the best value; buying new lenses separately is not cheap. Those two lenses will certainly enough to keep you busy for a good while, at least while you're learning.
Tripod, cable release and flash gun will definitely not come with the camera. When you buy everything new, photography is an expensive hobby/occupation and they won't be including anything in the package that they don't mention. You'll notice that website lists batteries and strap as "Included accessories", as if they were being generous by including these basic items :shock:.
Like everything else, tripods can be picked up very cheap or very expensive - it all depends on what you get. Don't get the cheapest plastic one you see, it will probably fall over as soon as you put the camera on it. On the other hand, don't go spending hundreds of pounds on one unless you're planning on taking it up Kilimanjaro and staking it sideways to the side of the mountain :sillysmi:.
If you go for that Nikon or most other modern autofocus SLRs, they will have a built-in flash which pops up when required. These are rubbish. Actually that's not fair; they have their uses but are really no good to you when learning about using flash photography. Therefore you may need to buy a separate flash gun. I'm not a Nikon owner so I can't tell you specifically which flash gun to buy, but I can tell you that it will be relatively expensive. Check with the people who run the course that you really need a flash gun, and if they say yes then go to a camera shop and ask if they have any flash guns for the F75 (or whichever camera you decide to buy). Remember, if you see something you like in the shop you can always go look for it cheaper online.
Cable release depends on the kind of camera you buy - with the Nikon or another modern camera it's likely to be a special electronic one which only works with that type of camera, and therefore will cost you more. Older cameras (like the manual ones from the '80s that have been mentioned here) will have the more traditional mechanical shutter release system. What this basically means is that it's just activated by a cable with a pin on one end that screws into the camera, and this kind of cable will be significantly cheaper.
Again I'd really recommend you go to an actual camera shop to look at what's available before buying the Nikon or any other camera. We can recommend hundreds of very good cameras, but we can't tell you whether you'll like them. If you buy the camera online without handling it first you may find it's too big or too small for your hands, too heavy to carry around or too light for the lens, you may find it uncomfortable using the controls, you might just think that silver plastic looks tacky, or that black is too easily marked. These are little things but ones that will get to you after a while. It's like buying a car - you wouldn't want to buy one without seeing it and then find the pedals are too close together and the seat gives you back pain, right?
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