Macbook Pro story... Win to Mac user Help needed!!

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I have been a windows user for many a year now, always satisfied with the OS but never pleased. Too many things go wrong with windows and I hate all the system registry bull. That and the dreaded viruses and popups.
I have spent a couple of years now looking across the water at you mac users, since my brother purchased his mac mini I have been droolling over the design and look of the macs. When Apple released the Intel based machines I pricked my ears up hoping that Vista would support EFI so I could dual boot. This was dashed when it was anounced that Vista would stick with BIOS.
I was back to square one then. You see I wanted the design of mac and the stability of OSX with the backup of windows. Being a school teacher I need windows to sync with the interactive whiteboards and other kids based programs.
My prayers were finally answered when apple released Boot Camp. It was beyond my dreams that apple would take such a bold step and open up there computers to the likes of me.
So after hours of pondering and reading through the posts on this forum I finally took the plunge, rushed down to my apple store in Brum and with the educational discount walked away with a Macbook for £1636.68. I was pleased and poohing myself at the same time having spent that kind of money (being a student teacher means money is tight!).
So I got the thing home and was amazed at its design and looks, it truely is a fantastic looking machine. Turning it on for the first time I was very apprehensive, all the posts about whine and heat had made me very nervous. After going through the setup and taking half an hour to get my WIFI working I finally started to play with it.
The whine was there and the heat, two things that I had been dreading, the heat did not bother me one bit. It was hot, very hot in places, but how often do you touch the bar across the top of the keyboard? I think this is a good place to allow the heat to disipate, I have worked on laptops where your blood starts to boil beacause the area where your plams rest is so hot. The whine did annoy me, it seems so strange that my computer made more noise when is was not doing anything compared to when it was. The photobooth fix worked perfectly which I figured i could live with until a proper fix is released. Plus I have read that windows does not have this problem so it must be software related.
As I was going skiing for a week i figured it would be ideal for me to take my computer to get to grips with OSX. Thats what I did and can I tell you that I was more than impressed, I really did not understand the comment people (including my bro) mad,e, 'it just works'. Until I spent a day using it, programs open up seamlessly and you can have several high powered programs running at the same time with no lag at all, fascinating.
I came back from holiday (last saturday) loving my new machine and ready to install boot camp plus start transferring my old files. Then, and this is where it gets interesting, I read a couple of posts about apple's Higher Education site and the amazing discounts it gives.
I can tell you that right now I am pretty ****** off, before i bought my mac I intentionally asked the guys in store if there was any way I could get a macbook for cheaper, online or anywhere. I was told that the maximum discount i could get was 8% off the comp and 17.5% off applecare. Now I discover that if i had purchased through my uni, I could have got 15% off my Macbook and applecare for only £60! Can you see why I'm a touch upset?
Any ideas on what I can do? I have had the computer for less than 14 days, I love it to bits and don't really want to take it back, plus if I do will I be charged a restocking fee? It seems it would still be cheaper to do this but what do you guys think? thanks for your help.
The reason for the long post is i wanted to get across how pleased I am with my macbook pro and OSX, if anyone has any doubts to buying one don't they are fantastic and OSX is a breath of fresh air, just remember the Higher Education store online if you are a student!

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Another update guys.
Went into the apple store in Birmingham, UK, which is where I bought it. I explained the situation calmly and they were very sorry for the misunderstanding. They instantly said that they could not match the offer that found on the higher education store.
The option I had was to keep the machine or they would give me a full refund, even though I had had it for over a week and it had a scratch on the case! Was a little shocked that I was not charged a restocking fee! Anyway, now I have no mac at all and it will take a couple of days for the money to go back on my card. I was very sad to see it go, I had really grown attached to it and am now stuck on windows again!
Can I just say what fantastic service apple provide, I love the idea of simply taking your computer into the store to get a fix rather than Dell which is online only.
Now I have a problem, I like the new 17" but think it will be too big to lug from home to school, I would like the dual layered superdrive though. Do I wait for the macbook pro update? Will they come down in price as the 17" is cheaper than a matching 15"?
Help!