Out of the box macbook pro 15" c2d problems

evening all,
right out of the box, i have had kernel panics every time i boot my new macbook pro c2d. i have also had the awake from sleep problem some people seem to be having. i am also unable to install either boot camp, parallels, or vmware. i have tried winxp, 2000 and vista in every combination. every time i try it corrupts the volume beyond repair and i have to wipe the hard drive and reinstall os x. i am getting worn out by banging my head against the wall. i thought this stuff was supposed to be easy. when i went to check on the firmware version for my macbook pro 15" c2d i noticed that i have the boot rom version and the smc version installed for original 17" macbook pro not the c2d version. it won't let me change the firmware back to a 15" c2d. it is showing MBP12.0061.B03 1.5f10 and i should have MBP22.00A5.B00 1.12f5 according to apple specs.
i will try to reset my smc, but the pram can not be reset via the usual keyboard combination because it just doesn't work like it did on my powerbook.
i am also going to try disabling the hibernate mode as suggested via terminal.
i am going to try trashing the plist preferences for the .AutoWake, PowerManagement and the systemuiserver.
i also have the problem when reinstalling os x several times that the optical drive gets stuck reading the original system disks and i have to start all over again. whew!!!
btw, i am a hardware tech but this is too much of a waste of time.
any other suggestions are very welcome.
macbook pro 15" c2d Mac OS X (10.4.9) tricked out powerbook 15"

here is an update for everyone, or at least you will get a good laugh out of it. I sent the macbook to applecare to be fixed and I just got it back. they replaced the harddrive and restored the os.
guess what? I turned it on and it had a kernel panic! then I tried to set up a user account and it had a ......... kernel panic! I had to laugh, what else can you do at this point?
they didn't fix what i told the tech support guy was the biggest issue on this machine. the boot room version is still MBP21.00a5.B01 which is for the 17" C2D. it is paired with the smc version 1.12f5 which is the version apple has listed for the 15" version. tried to change the boot room but it tells me it does not need the correction. everyone knows best yet i still get ....... kernel panics.....! lmao
here is the last kernel panic log if anyone is interested:
Wed Apr 18 13:35:56 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A3135): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0a124a48, CR3: 0x00c85000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x0a124960, EBX: 0x02cd7008, ECX: 0x0000e070, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x0a124a48, EBP: 0x13dfb879, ESI: 0x0253ac00, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010203, EIP: 0x2a5dcb57, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x56b50010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x13dfb678 : 0x128d08 (0x3c9afc 0x13dfb69c 0x131de5 0x0)
0x13dfb6b8 : 0x1a3135 (0x3cf7b0 0x0 0xe 0x3cefe0)
0x13dfb7c8 : 0x19a904 (0x13dfb7e0 0x0 0x989607 0x0) Unaligned frame
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x13dfb879
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
Wed Apr 18 14:06:31 2007
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A3135): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0xd8505ed5, CR3: 0x00c85000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00000001, EBX: 0xd8505ec1, ECX: 0x02bc806c, EDX: 0x02c4e6e8
CR2: 0xd8505ed5, EBP: 0x13ea3df8, ESI: 0x000e0000, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010282, EIP: 0x0017e42a, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x02c30010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x13ea3bd8 : 0x128d08 (0x3c9afc 0x13ea3bfc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x13ea3c18 : 0x1a3135 (0x3cf7b0 0x1 0xe 0x3cefe0)
0x13ea3d28 : 0x19a904 (0x13ea3d40 0x2d18b88 0x2c8fba0 0xe)
0x13ea3df8 : 0x1607c1 (0x2c4e6e8 0xe0000 0x0 0x1)
0x13ea3f48 : 0x1a33a8 (0x11b9c80 0xa35a3000 0x0 0x1)
0x13ea3fc8 : 0x19a834 (0x2bd3c40 0x0 0x10 0x0) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffff5f8
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
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