IPhone screen shakes violently when scrolling/dragging pages

Hi,
I have a 1.5 month old black 32g iphone 3GS (3.1.3) that has recently started experiencing a sporadic problem with the screen. When I'm dragging/scrolling on the screen (either scrolling through emails, or scrolling on a webpage, or even dragging a photo around), it begins to shake up and down very quickly and violently, and sometimes jumps around to different parts of the page without me doing anything other than just dragging like I always do.
The problem seems to go away after a while, but will come back randomly, sometimes within a few hours, or sometimes not until a few days later.
This has been happening for about 2 weeks now. The screen is in perfect condition, no scratches, no dust underneath it, so Im baffled about why this is happening.
Is anyone else experiencing this?

I'm having the same problem with my iPhone 3gs. I'm currently at a genius bar, and they need me to replicate the issue inorder to service the iPhone. Anyone have an idea as to the cause of this, or how to replicate it on demand or the apple genius to see? I've had mine for nearly a year and am afraid tha my warranty will run out before I can have apple fix the issue. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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