MacBook Disk Death

Hi there
My white Macbook, 3 months old, suddenly died last night. after the grey screen for a bit it gives me a terminal type screen BUT you cannot type anything. I ran disk utility from the install disk and it told me it wasn't happy and so i repaired it. disk verified fine.
It still wont start up, hanging on the grey apple screen.
I went to target disk mode to try and grab some data off it. It mounts but everything is painfully slow. Copying a 3mb folder took about 20 mins.
This sounds like a dying HD to me.
Your opinions greatly appreciated...
Ben
p.s. did you like the attention grabbing title?

You may consider replacing the HD urself. don't even bother trying to have apple fix that for you, cuz it's not gonna be worth it. I sent my macbook in 3 weeks ago to get the dead HD replaced. Right now the geniuses at Apple's repair facility are still "working on it"! told me 3 days ago it was supposed to be out that day. But 3 days later my macbook is still being held hostage. called again and was told that they are testing the memory...?$#@ What does that have to do with the hard drive??? I mean, com'on! We all know that the macbooks have the HD that are easiest to swap in the history of all the apple notebook computers. On this forum i also saw another fellow who lost 25 days for this.
Maybe this depends on individual experiences. The HD is only worth 60-80 bucks. Just bear in mind that you may lose a few weeks of using ur computer.

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