Abnormalities with my Macbook Pro.  Any solutions?

I bought my 1.83 gHz Macbook pro 15.4 in May of '06. I've loved the computer but its been acting really wierd, especially recently. The first thing was that it refused to record audio into Logic pro 7. No matter how long I spent trying to get my portable studio to work, it just wouldn't do it even though other people using my exact set up have had good results. Recently though it has just started to turn itself off for no reason as I use it! There is no indication, no error messages, just one second it's on and the next second its off. After one such incident I opened Camino and it said that my bookmarks were no longer readable, so now I lost bookmarks... Anyways, this just happened a few minutes ago and when I turned it back on, the fan was going at full speed and refused to shut off. I tried restarting, sleeping, and even shutting it down but it is still doing it. Also the computer is now refusing to recognize the battery! My system stats shows the battery as "draining" even though the sucker is plugged in. My battery meter at the top right just shows an X. I don't know what I should do about it! Do I need to ship it to apple or something? Please help me!!!!!!

Theres two things that have been on my mind:
Could it be overheating and then shutting off because of that? I did notice that the thing was really hot after that last occurence, and after I just let it be over night, it turned back on and was seemingly back to normal. I just downloaded a fan control program and it hasn't shut itself down since.
The other thing I was wondering about is the Logic disk, logic drive, logic core, or somehing like that. I remember reading an apple report a little while back saying that 15 inch macbookpros from May were the most problematic month shipped and that the Logic something or the other was the most common problem for just wierd behavior.
I think I should go see apple people but the problem is that I am in Germany now and actually extrememly busy.

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