First startup almost fine, second is silent black screen, what to do?

Hey fellow mac-users.
Well, I've "almost" become a mac-user... the case is, I just bought this white MacBook 13'' 1GB Ram and 80GB HDD, waited about 16 days before it was delivered, waited the whole day today from 8 o'clock in the morning till it arrived 7 o'clock in the evening - stupid TNT - and now, well, here's the situation:
I brought it out of all the package material, plugged the power-cord and it showed that it started recharging. Fine I thought. I'll give it a try then. I opened it, pushed the power button, the macbook started with a welcome sound - I was thrilled - it started a loading screen after the apple logo with somekind of cirle in different colors turning around, the mouse pointer disappeared, and the macbook stood working like this for like 10 minutes. Too much I though, must be something wrong. So I turned the macbook off by holding the power button pressed down for a moment, it powered down, I waited a bit, and tried to turn it on again. The white light in the corner of the macbook turned on - like it should when it's turned on I guess - there were a short flickering at the screen but just black screen afterwards, no welcome sound as before, sounded a bit like the DVD-drive tried to find a something for while but apart from that, nothing happened, and it has been like this ever after.
I've tried the power on followed by quick optioncommand+pr to reset the power-something, didn't help, tried to power down, disconnecting power adapter, remove battery, press power button for at least 5 seconds, etc etc. but no effect.
Anyone... please? Hehe, I'm getting crasy just to think about sending this machine back where it came from to probably wait all in all for 20-30 days more... why me

My MacBook has hereby been declared "Dead on arrival" and TNT will fetch it as soon as possible. A new one has been ordered to production and has an ETA of 29. August. So I guess, just "another" 14 days of excited waiting time
The procedure was a bit stupid though.
Talked to support (Denmark), who sent me to "technical" support (Sweden), who after 15 minutes declared my MB DOA and gave me a case-number and another telephone number. Talked with Aftersale support (United Kingdom) who sent me to the "real" aftersale department (Ireland) who finally worked out the different formulas and told me what to do (wait for TNT, and being able to track my replacement bla. bla.).
In total about one hour phonebill for me, I just checked my account, about 60 DKK (about 9,90 Euro)... and no "present" from apple like extra ram or extra hdd, ipod or anything... just wait for the new one to arrive... hehe, but well, it is still better than most of the other companies support.

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