Digital camera help

Ok this is more a "camera" thing than a computer thing, but ho-hum.

Anyways, I have my digital cam which is good and nice and all, but I actually know very little about photography. I can take pictures fine, thanks to the auto-focus and auto-flash and stuff like that, but I still tend to get the dreaded red eyes. How can I reduce this from happening? Is it caused by me being too close to the person or something? Or should I try and aim the camera away from their eyes? Or is the flash setting like wrong or something?

It's irritating when you take like 30 pictures, and 20 or so of them have red eyes in them. I suck at Photoshop so it takes too long to get rid of it too