Apple says they have fix for random shutdowns

I called Applecare today again, as I have been holding off on sending my machine in for the RSD problem. I have had less problems since locking and resetting the CPU, and wanted to wait to see if they would issue a statement on this problem. Today I was told "they know what the problem is, so send it in and it will be fixed". The woman I spoke with said she is not a technician so couldn't tell me what the problem/fix IS, but seemed quite sure of herself. Anyone else heard similar??
macbook 1.83Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7) week 23

Here's a post I made over a month ago with annotations in parenthesis...
Re: Randomly Turns Off
Posted: Jul 18, 2006 8:28 AM in response to: Bontempi
I called applecare yesterday for an update on my previous case regarding this issue. I told them the first time that I wasn't going to send it back until they identified a specific issue and came up with a fix due to the widespread nature of the problem. Yesterday, they said the fix was developed last week and that if I sent it in now, I will get that fix. He didn't know what the fix but we set it up to get repaired.
I don't know if he was just blowing smoke but I have to trust them at some point. I just hope it doesn't come back full of scratches. (after 14 days it did!!!, plus the dvd drive ate discs now. They sent me a new macbook so I wasn't able to really verify if the fix worked)
I also asked about parts involved in the fix that may be on backorder but he didn't think there was any due to the very few number of cases of this reported! He said he's never dealt with this type of issue before and I was the firt to report it to him.

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Temp fix to random shutdown (plug AC/remove battery)

I avoid this discussion board b/c of the hardcore fanboy-ism (rated members is a joke) but I want to drop off this temporary fix for random shutdowns:
Plug in your power adapter and remove your battery.
It seems to lock the cpu at 1ghz even at 100% load under the: "yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null" test.
I have been running this test for over 30min now with no random shutdowns where before I could not survive the 1 minute mark.
My cpu is now running at 1.0ghz/151F/100%.
Try for yourself and post your results.

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I have made some tests right now... over 2h running with 100% CPU usage at 1.83 GHz. Bofore the repair it shut down after 1 minute under same condition.
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