MBP LED display - yellowish?

I just bought a 15" MBP, and I am not happy with the quality of the LCD. The whole screen has a definite yellowish tinge, and the bottom 1/3 of the screen is the worst.
The difference is quite noticeable even when compared to my cheap Dell widescreen - the Dell has bright, crisp whites, and the MBP's whites are definitely yellowed. I have tried color calibration and adjusting the white point - that is not the problem.
Is everyone's display like this? So many people are gushing about them, I can't imagine that's the case.

I just came back from local Apple Center where I compared the new MBP 15.4" (LED) vs the new MBP 17" (same panel as previous model).
Same images on both, full images as well as zooming at actual pixels level.
The new LED screen seems to have slightly wider tonal range, clipping details in the highlights and shadows a tad later.
But it has way more artifacts, with much less smooth tonal gradation, for example in the sky or with subtle tonal variations.
The "shoulder" is smoother in the 17" screen, meaning that transition from detailed highlight to no-detail (pure white) is less abrupt, more photographic so to speak.
Colors are way too greenish, even if I guess they'd improve after monitor calibration.
When I read the specs of the MBP I thought to upgrade my MBP 17" by the time the LED would have been available on the 17".
But I was so unimpressed with the new LED panels that I'm actually thinking to upgrade my MBP 17" to the new model before they add LED backlit also to the 17"...
MacBook Pro 17" CoreDuo 2.16 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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