My good story with the 15" horizontal lines

I too received a 15" DL PowerBook with horizontal lines. I didn't record its serial number, but it did begin with W85 (one of the implicated serial batches). I took it back to the Apple Store after owning it for 4 days, spending most of that time researching what's really going on with all this. After using the pic that someone posted here in the forums (thank you!) to prove to the Genius Bar guys that there's a problem, they finally understood - even though Apple is currently "investigating the issue". They ultimately swapped out the machine for a new one.
My new machine has a serial beginning with W85, but it doesn't have the horizontal line issue. I'm incredibly pleased, and I hope this brings some positive vibes to an otherwise bleak story of yet another Apple 1st gen hardware issue.
17 iMac G5 1.8 Ghz, 15" DL PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz.   Mac OS X (10.4)  

Wow! This is great news. I really had lost hope here, there were too many reports of people just getting bad displays back time after time.
Only problem for me is that I have had the machine for well over a month, and it is BTO with 7200rpm drive...
I'd like to be able to take it to the store, open one up and test before I swap.
Although... I did alert Applecare of the problem a few weeks ago and told them to record my complaint and to contact me if they learn of a fix. I hope this will help. Thing is that it is getting to close to christmas now, and I'll be travelling around with the laptop.... hmmm.
Hey - you know what? I just noticed that my machine also makes these squeaky beeps when I type! What the ****? It only occurs when I am in the middle of this message composition pane - not on the lowest line, and not in the Subject line, and not in Word.
It is really high-pitched and annoying - arrrgh!
I heard someone else talk about this, and I had no idea what they meant. (sorry for this being off topic - but does anyone else hear this? - specific to the Apple Forum message compostion pane.)
It does not come through the speaker/headphone output.

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