Should I send my whining MacBook to repair or exchange it?

I have a week 12 MacBook Pro 1.83 that has the horrible whine other people on this forum have described. It only happens when running on battery power, and goes away either by opening PhotoBooth, the Mirror widget, or plugging into AC power. Changing the screen brightness does not seem to affect the whine at all. The whine goes away if I leave the laptop idle. It immediately starts whining again if I move the cursor or type on the keyboard.
I picked this computer up at the Apple Store at Northpoint in Alpharetta last Wednesday (two days ago). I've already called Apple Support about the problem, and they are sending me a box and issued me a Dispatch Number. Seeing as this laptop is only two days old, I'm wondering if that's entirely fair. Maybe I should go back to the Apple Store (even if it is a two hour drive) and exchange for another new laptop. I guess my question is, how likely is it that after driving all the way back to Atlanta, and all the way back home, I'll get a new laptop that doesn't have the same problem?
And my biggest concern is that if/when I do get to the Apple Store, they'll insist that the whine is normal, and won't exchange it.
So what do you think? Should I go ahead and send off the MacBook Pro I already have for repair, or exchange it for a different one and hope for the best?
Kinda depressed...
- Jon
(This is my first laptop since the 1.25 GHz TiBook that I was forced to sell three years ago when I was poor and in college. I had such high hopes for this one...)
MacBook Pro 1.83 and iMac Core Duo 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Sure :
Download the widget from :
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/webcams/mirror.html
Install it. When you hear the whine, hit the F12 key, if the mirror widget does not appear click on + to find it and launch. This will immediatly stop the CPU whistle, and switch on the green web cam light.
Then close the mirror widget (x on the left top of the windows) and rehit the F12.
You should be done with the whine unless you restart your machine

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