Loose ethernet cable connection on MBP 2.33

I have a new Macbook Pro 2.33 and the ethernet connection is loose. A lot of cables don't click in and stay. They pull out easily. Anyone else having this issue?
MacBook Pro 2.33 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

My wife and I both have 2.33 C2D MacBook Pros purchased at the same time (last November) and we both started having this problem a couple of months ago.
I have tried about a dozen cables in each, ranging from hand-made at work to solid-cast with strain reliefs and all slip out of the MBP sockets if you tilt them slightly up or down. This is a royal pain since though the AirportExterme-N is nice, it is no gigabit to our graphics file server.
As long as I can see it is not just something I am doing wrong I will feel more confident hauling them both into the Apple Store.
G5 2x2, G4 AGP, 17" MBP-C2D Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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