Camera has dead pixels??

Hey gang-
Has anyone seen this before? I have a 2-year old 5 meg Canon SD450 Digital Elph. When viewing some pictures I took this week in iPhoto 8, I noticed a small, bright spot on each picture. I was afraid that I had suddenly developed a dead screen pixel on my new 24" iMac. But I observed that the spot moved when the picture moved, so I thankfully ruled that out.
Anyhow, I then downloaded the pictures to a different Mac and same problem. Sooo, I used pro lens cleaner and lens sheets and cleaned the lens. Took some new pictures- but same spot is there!
Anyhow, the spot is centered at pixel 1803x916, on my photos of resolution 2592x1944. Magnified it is basically a white square with black border. The entire square is about 3 pixels by 3 pixels.
Does this sound like- and I hate to ask- the CCD is going bad in the camera? Anything to check to try to fix this?
Thanks gang!
Dave

I'd ask at the Canon site. I'm sure they have a Customer Service site.

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