IMac Display Issues Not Resolved

The Apple Store at La Cantera in San Antonio Needs Help!
I purchased my first personal iMac on May 17, 2006. It was a reconditioned model. Granted, I work for a very large urban school district in technology, I decided that the Intel Mac was for me. Within ten minutes of receiveing my iMac from Fed-ex the display began to show pinkish and green pixels all over the screen. I took the unit in that day to the Apple "Geniuses" at my local store. They booted it and immediately ordered a new MLB and LCD. I was told by the Apple support site it would be ready the 23rd of May. The day came and went and no iMac. On the 25th the store now reported that they were waiting on a Bluetooth Chip that they had broken during my repair. So, I was forced to wait over the Memorial Day weekend and finally received my iMac today. After ten minutes of use, I noticed the same exact problem I took it in for. It was as if no one had repaired it! I checked my System Profiler and noticed that my one gig stick of ram had been replaced by two sticks of 256MB of RAM! Wow! Where did my RAM go? The manager said he trusted the integrity of his techs. Does that mean he doesn't trust mine? Sadly, I am returning my iMac and will probably never make the Switch. I really wanted to. But, Apple is just not ready to please their customers.

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