Sounds like the inlet valve to me as well Shelly. Damn, that is an expensive valve.
If you do go the new washer route, the service guy we use has a website with some good advice regarding brands etc.
http://www.allbrandservicenaperville.com/products-washer.html
I kind of blow off some of his recommendations regarding controls to a point (he likes manual and hates electronic stuff). I learned this after I paid him $300 (or was it $600?) for the control unit in our old furnace, which he called the "brain box". I took the dead one apart and all it was was a few relays and a couple of basic looking ICs. Brain box, indeed