Getting Boot Error on 11.6 inch Air

At random times (about 5 times a day), my Mac Book Air (3 days old) began showing me this error when my laptops sleeps for a while. When I open the lid, the screen turns on and I get the following error:
No bootable device -- Insert boot disk and press any key
When I press a key, nothing happens. If I force a shut down (by holding the power key), it will shut down. When I boot it on again, I get the same error. The only way I can get into OSX is if I hold down the option key at the time of boot up and click on Macintosh HD. There are no other bootable options.
Has anyone experienced this? I have filmed it and uploaded it to YouTube - check it out. I'm going to go to the Apple Store hopefully tomorrow night... but thought I would post this to see if anyone has had the same issue... and if they found a way to fix it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTStiQQl608

Just to give anyone looking at this an update, my problem has been fixed. In the screen shot I took of the "Startup Disk" window, you just have to lock it to prevent further changes. This fixed the problem.
Some background:
The problem was caused because I installed boot camp, and then got rid of the partition. When you get rid of the partition, make sure you go into the "Startup Disk" window, and lock the settings.
This seems to be an OSX bug.

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