IMac 2008 dying again for 3rd time in 2.5 years - same problem! what to do!

Hi all
I've just made another appointment to take my iMac to an apple store for the 3rd time in it's short life.
I brought this iMac Oct 2008 and within a year the hard drive failed completely (spent a few months fighting with crashes/slowness/freezing etc until complete blue screen) - took it into the apple store and they replaced the drive... within a year (and several months of fighting again) it failed again... they replaced the drive again... for the last few months I have been fighting with the slowness/freezing and crashes more and more and now it's practically unusable and the blue screen comes up after it freezes longer than it's usual time)
it's taken me over 45 mins just to make the appointment and post on here from the last reboot!
What I want to know is... is this normal? will they just replace the drive again and this scenario keeps playing out on a yearly basis? (actually it's less than a year each time this happens) The last time the iMac was in they had it for 2 weeks yet didn't fix the screen (they replaced the glass the first time in yet nothing was wrong with it... now I have these giant whitish smears top and bottom... and gray bits) and I have a deadline coming up.
I'm a mature student due to start my final project for a BA (I'm in line for a first so I don't want to ruin things now) (my project is stop motion which takes a long time to do... not a two week job!) and the deadline is just five weeks away... but the iMac just can't be used for long now so I have no choice but to send it in ASAP!
anyone have any suggestions... the people in apple just say it's the hard drive but how can the hard drives be failing all the time... it has to be something else effecting them.
when I run the repair or disc analysis it says it's fine which it did the other times... the guy in apple had to do a different test with some gadget to show the problem (I'm not that computer literate ;-D)
gargh... I have bald patches over this thing!
this can't be normal... I really can't afford to buy another computer.. I would like to finish my BA as well

I rang apple and they said it was likely to happen again as this was the 3rd time so they will be replacing the iMac - yay!! the thought of arranging a cab (I dont' drive and I'm not carrying it on the tube or bus!) and then a week or two later back again... then the same issue again and again was just depressing.
hopefully I won't be without a computer for too long - they have to pick up my old iMac and then arrange for the new one to be sent so might take a week at least.
New one will be a 27" 1TB HD, 4gb ram... only has one 800 firewire port but I think I can join my two firewire drives together so shouldn't be an issue... but I'll just be glad to not fight with my computer.. took 5 hours for a simple powerpoint presentation - I'm really not that slow!!
oh... and wireless keyboard and magic mouse - I spilt whisky on my keyboard and it's not been the same since.. so all new shiny computer on the way soon.. yay!
I'm very relieved... I would have taken the same specs but I guess they don't do that but the extra specs will be very nice.
:-D
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