Brand New 27" iMac: humming noise!

Just restored everything from my Time Machine backup and wanted to start working
with my new iMac 27" i3 3.2GHz but there is this annoying humming noise!
It's not from the HD - I hear the HD only during reading/writing and this is quite normal.
The humming noise sounds like it's from the power transformer
and I can also feel a vibration when I lay my hand on the iMac.
Anyone else has this issue?
I hope this is not NORMAL with the new iMac!!
I've had 3 other Macs before (see below) and NEVER heard ANY noise.
As far as I'm informed, the previous 27" iMac generation didn't have
this humming noise either.
Please answer ASAP - I have much work to do. Thanks!

There are two power supplies in the iMac starting with the Late 2009 models. One is the main power supply, the other steps up the voltage for the LED backlighting. The main PSU is a bit left of center on the top of the system, the other one runs along the left edge from pretty close to the top to about the middle of the system. One of those is likely defective.
While I'd put the odds as pretty low, the worst case scenario would be one of those catching fire and completely destroying the computer.
I'm no electrical engineer, so if there are any out there who want to disagree with what I'm about to say, I'd definitely defer to them. But I'd say the humming is probably a sign that the PSU is not having it's power flow regulated properly and somewhere there's a buildup/backup of energy. It could also be a lack of proper shielding that's creating a kind of sympathetic resonance. Lots of possibilities, but so long as the frequency/pitch of the sound is remaining constant... PROBABLY nothing to worry about in the next 2-3 days.
Again, I'll defer to any electrical engineers in the audience, but having worked as a hardware tech for around 2 years, I've run across people who have had loud PSUs for years with no obvious ill effects. I wouldn't recommend it myself, but there's at least anecdotal evidence to suggest it's more of an annoyance than anything.

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Process:         Aperture [647]
Path:            /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Identifier:      com.apple.Aperture
Version:         3.5.1 (3.5.1)
Build Info:      Aperture-451099000000000~1
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App External ID: 107312636
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User ID:         501
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objc_msgSend() selector name: isKindOfClass:
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10 com.apple.CoreImage                     0x00007fff8d0c7f86 renderImage(FEContext*, CGRect, CGAffineTransform, unsigned int, void*) + 136
11 com.apple.CoreImage                     0x00007fff8d1cd988 -[FEOpenCLContext(Buffer) renderUsingGPUWithRenderCallback:destinationFormat:workingFormat:extent:transfo rm:info:] + 556
12 com.apple.CoreImage                     0x00007fff8d0c3e6c -[CICLContextImpl renderWithBounds:matrix:function:info:] + 3993
13 com.apple.CoreImage                     0x00007fff8d0c8634 -[CIContextImpl render:] + 230
14 com.apple.CoreImage                     0x00007fff8d0c65c1 -[CIContext drawImage:inRect:fromRect:] + 1558
15 com.apple.geode                         0x000000010f543f13 -[DGOpenGLContext drawImage:fromRect:inRect:dirtyRect:lanczosScale:context:] + 715
16 com.apple.geode                         0x000000010f542050 -[DGContext drawImage:fromRect:inRect:dirtyRect:purpose:] + 404
17 com.apple.Aperture                      0x000000010d508762 0x10d30f000 + 2070370
18 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96a76399 -[NSView _drawRect:clip:] + 3748
19 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96a74c0e -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 1799
20 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96a74fea -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2787
21 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96a72a50 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 841
22 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96ba1c03 -[NSNextStepFrame _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 303
23 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96a6f209 -[NSView _displayRectIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:] + 2828
24 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96a4e63a -[NSView displayIfNeeded] + 1680
25 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96b984ab -[NSNextStepFrame displayIfNeeded] + 156
26 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff96ab389e _handleWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraints + 884
27 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff97087cd1 __83-[NSWindow _postWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraintsUnlessPostingDisabled]_block_ invoke1331 + 46
28 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8ca6d0a7 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 23
29 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8ca6d017 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 391
30 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8ca5e7b8 __CFRunLoopRun + 776
31 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8ca5e275 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309
32 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x00007fff90bccf0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226
33 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x00007fff90bccb85 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 173
34 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x00007fff90bccabc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65
35 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff9691728e _DPSNextEvent + 1434
36 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff969168db -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
37 com.apple.Aperture                      0x000000010d77ae61 0x10d30f000 + 4636257
38 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff9690a9cc -[NSApplication run] + 553
39 com.apple.prokit                        0x000000010eb6fdca NSProApplicationMain + 333
40 com.apple.Aperture                      0x000000010d31ecc0 0x10d30f000 + 64704
41 com.apple.Aperture                      0x000000010d31e664 0x10d30f000 + 63076
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1   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff9546443d _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 239
2   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff95464152 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52

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Brand New 27" iMac i5 will not boot after installing software updates

I just purchased my new iMac 2 nights ago. I have been getting it setup with my apps, mobile me account, etc, and luckily just setup time machine and let it do a full backup.
I just ran Software Update for the first time, and now the machine will not boot. It hangs on the grey screen for about 1 minute before the Apple logo comes up. About 30 seconds after the Apple logo comes up, the grey spinning gear shows up, and about 1 minute after that I get the grey screen of death (You must restart your computer).
Any suggestions? A little frustrated here....

If you mean did I receive error messages, No, I didn't. However, the desktop reverted to the default purple night-sky looking thing, my applications and such all disappeared from the dock, and I couldn't open any files or folders (you don't have permission to ...), etc. I tried signing out and back in, rebooting, using a second admin account on the computer, creating a new admin account, etc. I ran Disk Utility, hardware checker, etc. No errors were found, and nothing changed. I could see all my files and folders, but they had a small red circle in the corner, indicating "locked" or "no permission".
I'll find the lines from the console log if that will help. The error showed up immediately and is in the computer's attempt to access the user/library/application support/sync services and same path to user/library/logs/sync services/log. (or something reasonably close to this. If you can use the exact path, I will get it) The link between my settings and files, and a password is apparently corrupted or something, so that the computer won't even let me change the desktop or any file, so I can't save, edit or discard anything, and can't drag files to another computer on the home network.
At least I'm still under the 90 day warranty, so I can call tomorrow. At this point, the SMART check says the drive is good, so I assume it's software. The only things new are the three auto Apple software updates I installed yesterday, so I immediately suspect them. But who knows?
Does this help you at all?

Brand New 27" iMac: humming noise!

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