tbh, i don't like Drupal at all.... used it on a website before for the busy season and took it down asap then...
cmsmadesimple, as i said in another thread is a beauty.... basic but comprehensive functionality...
joomla, following close behind, and is even better if you need modules and components and all that. also has a wider range of 'ready2buy&install' templates...
for the small range of clients I have had, they have all been people I knew, and I'd have rather spend two days with them explaining how to use the cms than have twenty emails and forty phone calls asking me to stick in an extra page here and there, or change files.
I have a basic knowledge of php, but as soon as someone mentions module or component, the first thing that pops into my head is joomla, grab a module, and edit it to suit my needs. still learning php, a slow, but sure process...