MacBook display went blank...

The display on my month-old MacBook just went blank a few minutes ago. Closed screen, sleep light came on, opened, sleep light went off but still no display... I held down the power-key until the display went from grey to dead-black-off, waited a bit, then turned it back on and it seems to be okay now; what I want to know is, one, is this a known issue with the newest MacBooks, and two, is it something I should drag him down to the Apple Store ASAP to have looked at? (IE, is this common and going to happen again and again unless I see to it, or was it some transient blip?) It's been a desktop machine for its entire life thus far, so it's not as if it's getting physically banged around that connections could already be loose if they didn't pretty much start out that way...

Just had this happen too! Did the software update, rebooted and it's blank. I can boot into single user mode, that works, booting verbosely gets to a certain point then goes blank.
I've tried resetting pram. no help. i can't figure out how to boot this from an external drive either (no firewire port! how smart was that?)

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