Apple Screens of Death, Flickering, and Black-outs Galore

Should I downgrade to the older version? 2.0 seems to be filled with new problems.
Since I upgraded it, I've gotten the apple screen of death several times, including today. I can usually fix this problem by resetting it.
Today, it just blacked out. I couldn't get it to work. I tried syncing it and it seemed like it was syncing, but I still couldn't see anything on the iPhone. Not even the Apple logo.
I disconnected and reconnected it, and it attempted to upgrade its software (even though I'm on 2.0). Tried again, and it couldn't detect the iPhone anymore and said it needed to restore.
Still no screen. I did one final sync, and the screen showed up and it was working again.
At work today, I received an important business call. While speaking with a prospect, I had to look something up in Omnifocus on my iPhone. As soon as I clicked on the app icon, it gave me the Apple screen of death. I wasted about 10 minutes resetting it.
On 1.1.4, I had always had issues in the "voicemail" section where the screen would flicker on and off. I've got the same issue now; it's just work. I try to listen to my voicemail, and instead I have to wait for my screen to actually show up as it flickers on and off, with long periods of "off."
Then there's the battery life issue. I was only in work for 6.5 hours today, and it was fully charged when I arrived at work. I had 3 or 4 phone calls on my cell, lasting about 30-40 minutes altogether. That's pretty much all I did on it. Once it was time for me to leave work, I had under 20% of battery life left. That's pathetic.
What is Apple doing to address these problems? The MobileMe homepage still isn't up for most users yet.
Who else has these issues? Has anybody managed to solve them? If I need to restore, I will. I just don't want to do that if it won't fix it.

GregMayne wrote:
i figure it is the logic board. and no it has never been changed. yes i have the box, the code. i keep everything for situations just like these and somehow they still try to **** me over.
Do this.
Go to the Apple Support page and type in your serial number. When the screen comes up showing that Serial number having Applecare extended warranty take a screen shot of it or Print it out to a PDF file and then Print a Hard Copy of either of those things. Take that with you when you take your Mac in to be looked at.
Good Luck with the Lenovo. I hear they are the same quality as when IBM was making them. Personally I have always used Dell Business Class notebooks and have never had any problems with them. Still have one that is going on 11 years old and it still runs as good as the day I bought it, actually a little better because I've upgrade the CPU, GPU. RAM and HDD.

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