Major problems with USB ports all of a sudden

Hi everybody,
I've a late 2008 Unibody MacBook Pro which seems to have developed a nasty problem over the last week. It started when I inserted my USB mobile broadband dongle which I have used time and time again with no problem. I put it in the USB drive and (this is tricky to describe) but a line kind of scrolls down the screen and I get a message telling me I must shut down the machine in several different languages (using power button as nothing else works). I thought the dongle thing had gone wrong but it works fine on my girlfriends brand new 13" MacBook.
Now when I do the transfer of my work stuff from an external HDD to my MBP it recognises the drive but transfers the 15GB of data at 1MB per minute! There isn't anything wrong with the External HDD (it works fine on aforementioned MacBook and all other Mac based machines - transfers the data in 10 minutes).
I've 1 month of warranty left, what's happening?
Message was edited by: aninternalaffair

Also I have performed an SMC reset which didn't help!

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