Annoying clicking sound

I noticed there has been a few posts about this but no one has said whether they actually got a fix. Did replacing the HD work.
My PBG4 is just over 3 years old (oh dear out of applecare warranty !!) and yesterday started making a weird clicking noise at random intervals ~ secs apart. Its nothing to do with sound because you can hear it with the speakers muted. Looking in Activity monitor I do not see it related to disk activity, no messages in the console log.
I would ignore it except that it interfers with listening to internet radio which I do a lot. In fact that's the only thing it interfers with does that give anyone clues as to what it would be.
Thanks
Anna

Is it a fast loud clicking sound that seems to be coming from the back left of the laptop? I have that with my 12" g4 PowerBook, and it is actually still in for repair as I type this. What the genius did was replace the logic board, but that still didn't fix the problem. They ordered another part that he thinks will fix the problem, but there are none of these parts in the warehouse . He said it would take 5 days, today is day 13. I'm very disappointed with Apple right now. If you don't have your AppleCare, it is going to be expensive.

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