MacBook Heat and Battery Issues

Okay my story started on Tuesday night when I began hearing buzzing coming from my power brick. I thought to myself, no big deal, I will just go and take it to the Apple Store and have them check it out because of some of the whining reports. Than I began noticing on Wednesday that my computer was getting hotter quicker than normal. After 5 minutes of being on the fan would come on my MacBook... after five minutes from hitting the power button. This is only from running Mail, iChat, and Safari.
Now, Friday. I decided to run my MacBook only from the battery and with Bluetooth off, screen half down, only running Safari with 96% battery left, it says that I only have under two hours of batter life left. What gives? Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there something wrong with my machine? A week ago, when I first got it the machine said nearly four hours of battery life. What the heck? Yes, I did calibrate it. Help would be appreciated here. Thanks in advance.

So yeah, I called AppleCare and reset my PRAM (as I have done before). To be honest, they weren't that helpful. Everything continues to go wrong on this machine and APPLE refuses to acknowledge my difficulties with it. What gives? And why can't there be any help or assistance with this machine. This will definitely be the last Rev A I will ever purchase... EVER. I thought I could deal with it, but I can't.
The fan continues to start running about 5 minutes after starting up. I have less than two hours of battery life after calibrating the crap out of it. I reset my PRAM and do everything that Apple tells me to do, ENOUGH. I have had it. Any thoughts or suggestions would greatly be appreciated! Thanks in advance.
- Jay

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