Macbook Pro Hard disk failure

Hi,
My 2 year old 2.16GHZ MBP 100GB hard drive recently corrupted and every few days I wouldn't be able to get past the grey screen with a flashing folder icon. Someone at the genius bar told me it needed a new HD. I had a new 320GB HD put in by an apple authorised repair shop last wednesday and it worked fine...until tonight. I have just tried to power it up and it has gone to the grey screen with the flashing folder. After 6 attempts to boot it up (including a 45 min break from trying) it has finally booted up.
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? It obviously wasn't the HD if the new one has gone the same way...after less than a week! I am a bit annoyed after spending over £250 for it not to have worked. I run OSX.5 as my main operating system with a small windows partition through boot camp if that helps.
Many Thanks.

Hard drives have a warranty. Take it back to the Apple authorized repair shop so that they can properly repair it.

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