Small dark cloud on the screen

Just found a small dark cloud on my 17" macbook pro c2d, I bought this machine in December.
Initially I thought it's just dust, after cleaning the screen, it's still there... anyway it's fine, if it's any dark characters or picture background there... but if it's white background, or the light-color'd picture, it's horrible, and the dark cloud just happened close to the center of the screen... any time, I'm typing/view the web pages, it looks ugly...
My questions are :
1. did anyone has the similar problem w/ their mbp 17" display? (I dont have this problem when I buy it)
2. I think I'm still in the applecare period? Does it include the display?
Thanks,
Michael

Does it look anything like this?
http://idisk.mac.com/tboelskifte/Public/Pictures/Skitch/ugly-20070727-104556.png
I just got a new 17" MacBook Pro a few moths ago, because I ruined the screen of the 15" I had been very happy with.
So I've been taking really good care of this one, and still this is what I see this morning. I have no idea what it is, I keep it in a very expensive computer-bag each night, and it has never been in contact with moisture of any kind.
I'm very close to tears right now and feel like everything is just ... not worth it anymore, I mean if taking care of your beloved Mac is yielding this result, what the **** is anything worth? I can't afford to get this fixed and Apple will just say I spilled something into it, everything *****!

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