Power adapter almost caught fire today, what should I expect from Apple??

I had been having some little niggles with my adaptor over the last week or two. It started of with the cable being lose, and dropping the charge at the slightest movement, this was rather irritating, as I no battery, due to the recall. The problem continued and got worse. For the last few days, the charger has failed to work at all at some times, and at others, the power has been flickering on and off.
But today, I picked up the charger, and it started sparking, with smoke coming out of it!!
I imediatly unplugged it.
Considering this computer is only 1 year old, I am very angered at having a, quite frankly, rather dangerous and unusable charger. And since I have about 40mins left till my laptop is unusable, I need a new charger, quick!
I hope Apple will replace my charger, free of charge (pardon the pun) as it is unreasonable for the charger to last this long. I am unsure if I am still covered by my warrenty, I bought the laptop about a year ago.
I will be a VERY angry customer if Apple does not fix the problem!!
Take this as a warning - the Powerbook power adaptors can become dangerous!

Whilst browsing, I came across this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2569334&#2569334
I have been having the same problems, and that could have been the cause of my charger shorting and almost cathing fire - be warned!

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