Has anyone been in a similar situation?

Here's my situation:
In the past four months, my Powerbook has been posessed by the devil. Not that it hadn't been before..::wipes brow::. New combo drive, new display, new keyboard keys, new logicboard, new..something else that I know I repaired, but don't have the receipt in front of me. Then it works fine for a week. Then on the 17th of May, my hard drive fails. So Apple will replace the combo drive, logicboard, AND hard drive? The geniuses say it will take care of everything and prevent further issues, which is great now that my warranty expired on the 18th. (phew!) The question that I pose is, has anyone else been having similar problems and has this solution been a good fix?
They informed me this morning that the logicboard from Apple will be arriving in ten days, so I have plenty of time to discuss the repair. By the way, today is the 27th, they've had my computer since the 17th and I'm waiting 10 more days. Is this normal for working through Geniuses? I've always gone to MacAuthority, an authorized repair center and I get it back in 5. Hmm.

Hello Lauren,
In this kind of history, I was able to noticed in my career in computing two big causes:
First one, rational, the one that everybody likes thinking, the defective material or the product not succeeds (as we see it more often on PC ;-))
Second, less rational, rare but very alive cases: persons possess a very strong magnetism that no computer resists... These persons exist and I met it. Indeed on, we do not want to believe in it... But due to noticing certain very real facts and with no sens, we are obliged well to believe in it...
Ex: Mac is Uptime for more than 60 days, its process is common and no shady software (kind Powerpoint or Word) works above. A person possessing a very strong magnetism enters in the room and then the computer bugs and the only appeal is a forced reboot... We made all the vérificatiion after...No explication...
I knew similar cases in your, who due to using their new computers, they had to put it in the dustbin ...
The solution... Make verify your magnetism and if it is the case, for controling this magnetism and limiting the damages in the future...
Have you the same difficult with others systems ? (TV, Cell Phone, Video Recording, etc.)
I'm so sorry for you.
Regards
David
PS : Excuse me for my english.
Al PowerBook 15 - 1.67 / 128 VRAM / 1GB RAM / 75 GB ROM Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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