After restart I have to power up several times before Mac Book Pro boots

Just got a new MBP 2.4 GHz with 2 GB ram. It started up fine, but I notice that after restarting (after software updates and the like), I often have to power up several times before it will actually boot up.
When it doesn't boot up, I get a gray screen and the light on the front of the machine blinks 3 times, pasues for about 3 secs then repeats the 3 blinks. It does this until I hit the power button, at which point it will immediately shut off. I wait a few seconds then hit the power button again to start up, if I am lucky it will show me the apple logo and boot up. if I am not lucky, it will do the same 3 blink cycles again.
I've had as many as 10 tries before it would boot up some times. This really ***** because I just bought the machine 1 week before the 2.6 GHz machine were released. Had I even known newer ones were one the radar, I would have waited!!!!
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

ya call apple, but you may want to try resetting pram and SMC (turn off machine take out battery and power adapter hold power button for 5 seconds and ur smc is reset, put it all back turn on and hold command+ optionpr until you hear the 3rd chime and your pram is reset)
apple may also ask you to run an apple hard ware test, take you original gray dvds that came with the machine and boot from it while holding d and run the extended test and see if you get an error. that will help make things go faster if you do all that first before calling apple
-matt

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