Mac Book Pro Core 2 Duo Cooling Fans running at 6000rpm

Hey everybody.
Need a little help/advice. I bought a MBP 17" C2D back in June and now the cooling fans turn up to around 6000 rpm minutes after turning on my notebook. I've tried SMC fan control, which didn't work. I searched for a stray program, but nothing turned up. I am trying to avoid having to drive to the Apple Store (I will if I have to), but wanted to see if anybody else had a suggestion. Any feedback is appreciated, bigtime. Everything works normally too, all my programs, my wireless card, etc. Leopard installed in a breeze. Thanks in advance for the feedback.

Two possibilities:
1. a stray process is maxxing out your CPUs, and the fans are running normally to keep the heat down. To diagnose this (A) open /Application/Utilities/Activity Monitor, choose "All Processes" from the popup menu, then click the CPU column to sort by CPU amount. Look for anything that consistently uses over 30% CPU.
2. If you've been messing with SMC fan control, it's possible your fans are out of whack. To fix this: (A) make sure you uninstall all fan control software -- there are at least 2 different programs out there, so make sure you uninsall all of them. (B) reset your SMC chip as per: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319 (C) when you reboot, if your fans are now quiet, make sure you actually feel the macbook's case -- in one case I had, the fans stopped working which was nice & quiet, but it quickly became blazing hot which was not good.

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