My £2000 MacBook Pro 17'' is falling apart???!!!

I gave the case, keyboard and screen a wipe down with a dry lint free cloth earlier and am shocked!!!
There is a thin silver bar runing along the bottom of the keyboard, its painted SILVER - why, this area must get a hammering and my machine is 4 weeks old and the paint flaking off below command button!!!
And I have just found the reflective letter 'c' on the logo below the screen MacBook Pro 'c' and its fallen off???!
Now I dont know if this is donw to the heat or what, any experience in this people, what can apple do for me.
I bought the machine from PCWorld and as I use the machine for earning my money, just cant have it away for long.
My old Powerbook never had these aesthetic problems at all.
Heeeeellllp....

joolzb,
Without trying to tick you off for what is a stupid mfg/design issue. But if you dropped the "Pro" letters you could have the worlds first MacBook 17" !
or dropped the "Book", you get a Mac Pro 17" - another world first !
I saw someone else suffer this and hence never go near the letters. Give em a call, its not good enough.

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