Extreme heat on an 2008 MBP

Hi,
My MBP has been heating up quite rapidly.
The CPU has gone up to 74 degrees (Celsius), and the GPU to 76.
About the same thing happened once when I was trying to load Windows 7 VIA Parallels. I figured I was overloading the CPU and therefor it was heating up.
The problem now is different:
I'm not running any heavy applications.
As a matter of fact the only applications I'm running right now are:
Skype, Adium, Adobe Reader, Firefox and Mail. One would think that the processing power needed for these Applications are low...
What's more the fan speed does not increase at all(!). It just sits and stays at 2000Rpm...
Enviroment: Room temperature - 25 degrees Celsius (airconditioned).
OS: OSX 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
Processor: Intel Core2Duo 2.5GHz
GPU: nVidia Geforce 8600M
this is NOT the unibody version, it's the previous aluminum version.
added a screenshot to better explain my problem:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2vvrfv8.png

Have you used Activity Monitor to check for runaway background processes? If so, did you change AM's "Show" window from its default of "My Processes" to "All Processes?" This is important because the typical rogue background process is not owned by the logged-in user but by the system.
Also close all user apps when you check for a runaway. It's easier to spot if the computer is at "normal idle." Anti-virus software is notorious for eating up background processes. So can third-party backup programs
Are you using an external monitor with the built-in display closed? That can trap heat.
Open System Profiler (In Applications > Utilities) and see what "SMC Version system)" reports. There was an SMC update after the discovery of the nVidea 8600 issues that changes the fan behavior presumably to provide better cooling. If installed, the Profiler entry for SMC version should start with 1.3.
I take it you have the MBP positioned so air can get to the case bottom? That's an important part of the cooling system.

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No, the cause and effect is opposite
It's not happening on mine. Here is my 1st generation 1.6Ghz MacBook Air w/Snow Leopard running a YouTube Flash video, Hardware Monitor and System Load maxed out at 100% for over 10 minutes.
http://macosg.co.uk/grabs/61071d8d0effa93c4816163b707cefc4.jpg
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--Travis

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Each successive major release of OS X has weighed your machine down with more resource demands. On top of that, you likely have a very fragmented file directory. Heed the really good advice about increasing your RAM.
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