Authorized repair shop made a mistake - is fixing it reluctantly.

I took my Mac Book Pro to an authorized Apple repair shop where they replaced the logic board under warranty. One of the features of the logic board is that it stores the Macbook's serial number - the one that displays when you call up the System Profiler. The technician who installs the logic board runs a special program to permanently write the serial number onto the logic board.
Well, when I got my Macbook back, it turned out that they made a mistake when they were adding the serial number to my new logic board, so now the serial number that displays in System Profiler doesn't match the true serial number which is on the bottom of my Macbook's case.
I asked the repair shop to fix that problem, and they say that they can't unless they change the logic board out again. They're reluctantly agreeing to change the logic board again, since it was their mistake.
Am I making a big thing out of this. I paid a lot of money for my macbook, and that feature used to work before I took it in.

Also... TimeMachine relies on the machines MAC address... not the serial number.... so even if they did reset the serial number, you would still have the TimeMachine problem. Apple's repair policy is that they will repair the machine that you send to them or bring in for service to a proper functioning state. When you received your machine back, it was functioning as it should. The single problem you are experiencing (I won't consider the serial number a problem) is easily corrected per the previous comment and is not indicative of any wrong doing on the part of the service center. Frankly, when you get your machine back... again... you are still going to have to go through the process in the previous post as it is unlikely they did anything to the MAC address.

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