Dead Pixel on brand new MBP

Hi to all. I just bought my MBP 17" 2.8GHZ no less than a week ago. I love it...except 3 days into using it I discovered a dead pixel! Not just on the side...but in the middle of the screen.
Called the Apple store and they said I have to make an appointment to have the Geniuses look at it to verify that its a dead pixel. I mean I think one can know if the pixel is dead or not.
Anyways, I custom ordered the 7200 RPM HD, so they can't replace it in the store. If they said they had to open it up and replace the screen...is it going to hurt any of the internals or wires? The dead pixel bugs the crap out of me...but I want to make sure that it wont cause more harm by having them replace a screen, as this has to last me a long time.
Thanks.

Had the same problem. I just called up, explained the problem, they sent me a shipping label, and I sent it back and had a new one inside of a week. New one has no dead pixels that I can tell... yet. Only had it for 2 days. The previous one had a bright red pixel that was so annoying since I restore photos or sit in the terminal with a black background all day.

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