Brand new macbook pro - blue screen of death?

I received my 15" macbook pro in the mail only 10 days ago. I noticed that it seemed a little bit slow every once in a while. Today I ran software update. As it began the process of the auto-reboot, it got stuck on the purpley-spacey-image with a pinwheel for WAY longer than it should have. It became apparent that it wasn't going anywhere.
I then did a hard power-off, and a safe re-boot. After the progress bar completed, it moved to the dreaded blue screen. The rotating gear would appear, then disappear with a changing of shade on the blue screen. Again, I waited WAY too long. It again became apparent that it was going no where. Hard power-off, safe-reboot. Same problem. Hard power-off, normal boot. Same problem, but this time with no gear. What should I do? I'm stuck on the blue screen.
I've not installed hardly any software - dropbox and prey are the only two I can think of. I'm using Snow Leopard, not Windows.
Thank you very much for your help,
Dave

OK! For the benefit of anyone else who has this problem I have solved it. I downloaded the latest driver from the Marvell Yukon website (http://www.marvell.com) but went for the 88E8053 driver - picked that up from a blog elsewhere talking about Win XP 64 bit installs - then uninstalled the Ethernet card driver from Device Manager and restarted. When XP rebooted it automatically found the new hardware and apparently reinstalled the driver (not sure if it was from the drivers it already had or from my download) and now it doesn't crash when enabled. Happy Times!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope this saves someone the several hours I've just wasted...

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