Messed up home key

The home key on my new 8G iPhone is all messed up! Takes a couple of pushes for it to work.. I suppose the only solution is to go back to apple and exchange it? Anyone having problems like that?

I am having kind of the same issue as well. It seems to take two or more attempts for the home button to respond. Especially, immediately after a call has just ended. The screen stays blank so I cannot see for sure that the call ended and this prevents me from hitting the end call button if i need to, and when I try to hit the home button, it just sits there for a long time and finally gets me back to a locked screen. Sometimes, it works to hit the power button at the top of the phone and then the next time I hit the Home button it finally responds promptly to bring the screen back.
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