Macbook Dying by a thousand cuts

Hi
Hope someone can help. Macbook all ok until I downloaded some MAC generated updates recently, sorry I don't know what they were.
Anyway,
-Battery now won't charge
-Bluetooth won't work
-Entourage just gives Error 16008 all the time (yes have tried deleting plists)
-It didn't boot up until I had reinstalled the OSX software twice
-Quicktime no longer plays my films
-Internet is slow
I have repaied the disk and done all the first aid stuff and I used Applejack in single user mode.
Its horrible.... Can anyone help? I am trying to write the last projects for college and I am dealing with a self destructing computer which I am scared to turn off in case it never opens again....
Thank you anyone who can give me a helping hand
Andrew
Message was edited by: Andrew Crown

Have to say terrific warranty
Macbook needed:
New Motherboard
New Hard Disk
New battery
All done for free by a very helpful Apple agent.
Thank god it was only 8 months old.....
Begs the question though after only 8 months....

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