Any iMac 24-inch horror stories or is it all good so far?

Hi all,
I've been looking around these forums for a while, as I've been updating my iMac. I had a G5 1.9GHz with iSight cam which I got in December last year (just a few weeks before Apple released the Core Duo version, I was very miffed), and decided to get a MacBook Pro (see spec listed in the signature). However, I have experienced one or two problems. One, heat (well, only to be expected), two, a very strange metalic clicking noise every 40 seconds or so from the hard drive (no one seems to know what it is and at a guess it seems to be that it's the hard drive actuator in free flight (i.e. not under correct control of it's servo mechanism) hitting the end stop and three my System Preferences icons keep going a little odd and I keep having to trash a pref file and reboot to solve it.
As you can guess, I am wondering if there may have been a better answer to my problem and wondered (as I was very impressed with it when I saw it at the Apple Retail Store the other day) how people are getting along in 64-bit Core 2 Duo land with the newer iMac's and especially the 24-inch model! Anything to report (especially stuck/dead pixels, as I had a lot of problems with them on my previous iMac's), or is everything going smoothly?
Just curious!
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2.0GHz Core Duo / 512MB / 80GB / 15" Glossy

Well, an update. I reinstalled OS X, and everything seems fine except for Front Row. Apparently, from what I read over at the Front Row forum, there is some kind of glitch going on. I'll be posting about it over there. The only other thing that was off, and this is minimal in my estimation, was the Mighty Mouse that came with the iMac. It buzzes. I connected it to two other Macs, and it continued to buzz (or make a weird buzz/whir sound combined. Something funky in the mouse I gather.
The screen is gorgeous, no dead pixels, no dark spots. I'm using User Switching, and made accounts for my wife and my son. The switching is working vey nicely. I screwed up the transfer of my work music library to iTunes and had to start from scratch (having lost all the playlists, etc. Oh well. The bigger hassle again is that Front Row seems to think some songs are not authorized.
So, it has been working well, and handling all the apps I've run so far without a hitch. I've used the whole iLife suite, including iWeb. I used a non-intel native Photoshop CS and it works quite well. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Pages, Keynote, Final Cut Pro, Omniweb, Firefox, iBank, FileMaker Pro Advanced 8.5, and a host of other apps. Fast loading (the 2Gb of RAM helps).
This beauty is also super quiet. No clicks, no whirring sounds, no buzzing, no cracking, and hardly any sound of accessing disk or anything. It has proven quite silent. Bright as all get out, and I find my eyes working hard at trying to take in all the screen or move around it, but I have to adjust ergonomically to this larger screen.
The remote is fine, it sticks to side and does not fall. The speakers sound strong, much more so than I expected, but the positioning could be improved (pointing downward is not very effective). The Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 have not arrived (I expect them tomorrow), but I will post as soon as I test them. The DVD player handled DVDs with ease, and it was a pleasure to watch.
I'm using a wireless mouse that the iMac had no trouble recognizing, but the mouse at times feels a bit jittery, as if it wants to roam a bit. The iMac also had no trouble recognizing my Samsung t-509 via bluetooth, but of course, iSync won't sync with this particular phone. Samsung just doesn't seem to want to play nice.
One complaint: I wish OS X gave me more flexibility with parental controls. I want to set up a user account for games only, but would prefer to leave the games in the shared folder so all users can see them, etc., add more flexibility to what my son can see and do (make more folders visible). Maybe I just have to figure it out.
Oh, and I need to find some seriously large desktop pics! The other ones I had just don't cut it with this large screen size!
Have fun folks!
N

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          76 MB          Google Chrome
          72 MB          WindowServer
          45 MB          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information:
          52 MB          Free RAM
          666 MB          Active RAM
          611 MB          Inactive RAM
          322 MB          Wired RAM
          7.11 GB          Page-ins
          161 MB          Page-outs

You are only running on 2GB of RAM. IMHO 4GB woud be the minimum to realistically run Mavericks on, although the more the better.
Pete

Any iMac 24-inch horror stories or is it all good so far?

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