MacBook Pro whine problems plus wake-to-sleep problems and power adapter

Hello. I bought my MacBook Pro for some months ago as "refreshed". They said that it worked fine and had no problems. That just the owner had left it because he didn't want it anymore. However, sure, it has worked great. But it has a loud annoying whine. It is very annoying. Nope, no Mac OS X update or firmware update have worked. I guess I should leave it in, or should I? Maybe I can get a MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo instead of my current MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo (2.0 GHz). Or what do you think?
The second problem is with wake-to-sleep. The latest update said it would fix this issue. But it is even worser now than it was. (and it was bad). It seems like when the power adapters gets unplugged, that it goes to sleep then. But it also goes to sleep sometimes and is hard to wake up, so still same issues there.
The first but last. My Power adapter is kinda broken, it works, but the quality seems kinda bad. These two things that you plugin to the wall, they are bent so it kinda hard to plug it in.
Anyone knows what to do?

It whines when on batteries too.
Then just install the kernel extension, aand pure silence I don't think that it decreases a lot the battery life. It is safe to try, and it can be installed uninstalled dynamically to the system. It has an automatic installer, which will enable it each time your computer starts. If you do not want it to be automatic like that, let me know, I can explain how to controle loading/unloading of the driver

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