Macbook Crashed and Only White Screen Now!!! Please HELP!

Hey guys,
I'm sorry if this problem has already been posted and have been answered but can someone help me too!
Just 10 minutes ago i was using my macbook. everything perfect as normal after 8 months right now and then i was just on my itunes and surfing the net at the same time and then all the sudden my macbook frooze on me and the spinning rainbow was my mouse and like the music paused as well.
and then it wouldnt let me force quit or anything so then i just held the power button and it turned off. but before i did... all i could hear was the harddrive or .. maybe something else... bottom right corner of the macbook so right side to the mousepad. it kept making cracking noises .
then after 10 seconds i turned it on again and the mac start up sound ...sounded and then it was just a white blank screen. and then the cracking noise kept going and then after awhile of nothing i tried restarting it again and again and finally at this one time it gave me the Folder with the ?!!
and then i read the manual and it said to put in the cd. so i did and it doesnt even read it.. its just a white screen
I dont know whats wrong! im only on the 8th month!will apple fix this? i have all my lecture notes on it and .. my exams are 2 weeks from now!
Please help me! im sorry about my spelling and grammer!
Thanks in advance !

Hey all!
Well I went with the problem that it was my hard drive and since i was still under the 1 year warranty i thought i would just call apple up for fun!!
They were nice enough to answer my questions without me going for the Apple Care for $299.99 or $59.99 that call and said i went through everything and it seems like i've been doing a good job but it must be the hard drive.
So then i bought it into a Authorize Apple Dealer and they fixed it up for me.
However, they said its usually a 99% that they cant recover my hard drive, which came to a bummer because i lost all my lecture notes and a project that i was working on thats due tomorrow :S!!
but hey !! its like brand new again
just wanted to share my story so that atleast if you have the same problem! It might be similar to my situation.

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    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    Old-style plist parser error:
    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    Unexpected character at line 1
    Old-style plist parser error:
    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    XML parser error:
    Unexpected character at line 1
    Old-style plist parser error:
    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    XML parser error:
    Unexpected character at line 1
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    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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    Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
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