Problems with new  Macbook Aluminum 13" Airport not found + Dead Pixel

I'll start off by saying that this is my first Mac. I noticed today that I have a dead pixel (not a big deal I can exchange it, kind of a pain since I have already installed all my files and configured windows XP). My other problem is with the Airport card. The error I get is "No AirPort card installed". When I go into system preferences/network/Airport tab and click "Turn Airport On" nothing happens and the status is "off". I also try "Assist me..." and run the network diagnostics for the AirPort and it just scans forever and finds nothing. Now, here is where it gets fun. It works just fine on the Windows XP side. Like I said, I am going to exchange this Macbook anyways b/c of the pixel but I would like to know what is going on here incase this happens again. The Airport was working fine yesterday on both Mac and Windows. I'm very impressed with the graphics but disappointed that XP runs better on my new Macbook then Mac OS X.

Provo1109 wrote:
I'll start off by saying that this is my first Mac. I noticed today that I have a dead pixel (not a big deal I can exchange it, kind of a pain since I have already installed all my files and configured windows XP).
If you have a USB2 hard drive you can spare (it will be formatted as a Mac drive, not FAT32) you can do a Time Machine backup of the machine before the exchange. You can then load that into your replacement machine and not have to reinstall anything. That's how I went from my old MacBook to the new one on Tues and it was very slick. Even Windows (under Parallels) was installed.
Oops .. just noticed date of original post: My advice is a tad too late
Phil
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