How long should the newer iMacs last?

When I bought this computer, I was expecting to get at least 3 years of use out of it, but I'm wondering if anyone has had any long term experience with the prior flat-pannel iMac's. Is it wrong to excpect 3-5 years out of these without any real problems? Just wondering what your experiences have been, Thanks
-Evan

"And when they do break down more than they should Apple extends the waranties and service on them like they did with the iMac G5 first generation. So dont worry."
What do I need to do to get help? I've had so many problems with mine, all just after the 3-year extended warranty expired. Even in talking to supervisors, I'm hard-pressed to get anyone to listen. I finally got a replacement disc for the Apple Care which came with my warranty. I had never opened it before it expired, and it had been incompatible with my system since I'd bought it (but I didn't know, since I'd never used it). It took hours of calls and being on-hold to get a supervisor to approve even a replacement disc, which costs Apple little or nothing. The disc didn't work, neither did any of my System Restore discs, the discussions forum couldn't figure out what was ever wrong with my iMac, and now I sit here with all of our iPod music and family videos/photos on an external hard drive which our PC won't read and our iMac won't extract (see my post question about the blank disc). To get support, all I get is the standard line of, "that'll be $49 for each question, valid for five days of support for each question asked." If there's a customer service line where they really help, I'm really needing it! Who do I call to get it working again? I BEGGED my husband to buy me this computer, telling him that Macs were so much easier than PCs. I hadn't worked on a Mac system since early in 1998, and that was in a corporate environment where the IT department handled any problems so I never had to worry about it. My current computer-programming friends can't help at all, because all they know is PC. I really feel lost in a vacuum with my beloved Mac, which is sucking our bank account dry with all of the necessary upgrades and support which come free with a PC.

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