Lemon 20" iMac? Need Help

Hello,
We have had a first gen iMac since Feb of this year. It was flawless until August. Since then the Logic board was replaced because the fans wouldn't spool up enough to keep it cool. When we received it back the wireless reception sucked until a undate now it ***** again. The unit has never went to sleep on it's own since the LB replacement. A week and a half ago it started a random shutdown, Apple replaced the power supply last week and tonight it shut down twice again.
Is this thing a lemon?
We have converted the whole household over to Mac. This iMac, my Macbook, the kids 12" iBook, with two iPods. To date my MB has seen service for heatsink sensor and the above frustration with the iMac.
Are we asking to much to has something we paid that much for just work. Do you think Apple will exchange this unit or allow us to pay the difference to go up to a 24"?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Hi KamikazeKunze, first of all, you should post this in the iMac G5 Discussion since you mentioned it is a "first gen iMac", I am going to assume that... unless it is not, and you meant the 1st series Intel iMac, which uses the Core Duo chip.
Okay, nevertheless, I share your sentiments and normally under this kind of circumstances where you have numerous repairs in and out of the tech service centre that made you loose confidence and perhaps even frustrated with the product.
But you have to relax, chill and think that, this is just a computer, and generally, Apple make good Macs, it is just probably your slightly "bad luck" that you have to go through this...
I am not sure about U.S. and/or Denver's product warranty or customers' rights, whether you bought the mac directly from an Apple Store or a "3rd party" Apple Reseller... like Amazon for example.
What I would encourage you, but require your lengthy talk with the store manager or someone who has the authority, looking at what you have been through, that perhaps they can give you an exchange of a new Mac, or even what you wish for, an upgrade.
Good luck and cheers

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