2 dead harddrives in less than 2 years.

Hi all,
My hard drive died 2 days ago (blinking folder at startup), but the problem is, it's the SECOND hard drive that has failed in my Macbook. My most recent hard drive is less than a year old, so I'm now wondering if there is something fundamentally wrong with my Macbook hardware, and not just bad luck with hard drives.
I know there were known issues with the first revision Macbook and the OEM hard drive, but I was hoping that my current drive would have lasted more than 9 months. (And I do believe that the drive is under warranty... but that's another issue)
Any help would be greatly appreciatled...

Running 1 gig of RAM, and haven't installed either bootcamp nor parallels/fusion on the computer... the hard drive just stopped spinning during normal daily use....
I was doing a little web browsing, listening to music, when everything just stopped working. I couldn't forcequit anything, and the keys and mouse (no pinwheel) were unresponsive. The my caps and num-lock buttons would turn on/off... but nothing else worked...

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