Black Macbook : GREEN DOT DISCOLORATION

I bought my black macbook just a little more than a week ago. Its been good to me...but yesterday, i simply closed it to put it to sleep - i went to sleep - woke up and there was a green dot on the bottom of the frame of the screen, just left of the M of the "MacBook" logo. I would imagine that Apple will claim this as a cosmetic issue and will not take any measures to help me out - but just to check, has ANYONE heard of this problem? Any help would be appreciated.

I had this problem after owning a black macbook for three days (I returned this macbook because of some other problems it had and exchanged it with a White macbook). I had no idea where it came from - it suddenly appeared on the wrist area of my macbook - very small green dots. I tried to clean them, but couldn't get rid of them. I thought it is more of the issue of paint peeling rather than discoloration. But who knows?

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