Light dot, 3-4 pixels wide

Hi,
this is my first post to the community after two years of using apple products.
I started with the white macBook, added an ipod touch and now i own myself a macBook Pro unibody, purchased July 2009.
Now theres one thing with the glare display:
In the lower left corner, there is a 3-4 pixel wide spot that is lighter than the rest of the screen. it "dissapears" if looked from the top and is best seen when i look at a right angle at the screen or slightly below and from the right side.
Its very hard to capture it on camera, because of focus problems.
anybody seen anything like this on his macBook Pro (uni)?
best regards,
makro

hi,
thanks for the information and yes, it was there from the beginning. i recognized it after some days of work with the MBP. unfortunately, i didnt let anyone know at applecare about this immediately, but i simply had too much work in the last three months.
i could bang my head against the wall, when i think of the little bump on the underside of the MBP, which was also there since i recieved it. apple could use that against me, i should have returned the laptop immediately. its on the righthand, about 6cm from the side and 10cm from the front. it seems to be even and circular, maybe its standard, but i have nothing here to compare it against.
shouldn't the underside of the unibody be completely FLAT?
however, i have managed to shoot pictures of the display flaw with manual focus, slightly focusing "behind" the screen-level.
http://www.aniloco.com/apple/mbpscreen1.jpg
The dark part of the image is just the tip of my left thumb.
About 10 "pixels" to the right of it, you can see what i am talking about.
Seems that i have to contact AppleCare...
Best regards,
makro
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