Space bar not always spacing

Recently all of a sudden the space bar decides that it needs me to slap it twice as hard as I used to in order to get it to have it to space.
Is this a common problem of some Power/MacBooks? I have the first revision of MacBook Pros.
Kinda disappointed - had it repaired twice for heat, whining issues, motherboard problems and now it has this space bar problem and also a really loud optical drive (it clicks a lot when it loads) that they put in when my old one couldn't burn DVD+Rs.
Any similar experiences? This is starting to get on my nerves as I need my laptop frequently for school and I need to code! (Computer Engineer here).
I really should have gotten a regular old notebook - I bought a MBP for OS X but now I guess I could have put up with XP (I have a Windows desktop, advid gamer).

I also have a first generation MBP which I now use as a hot plate. It gets so insanely hot my wife burnt her fingertip on the strip just above the function keys.
Apple replaced the logic board but it still gets hot - Apple states its well within specifications. Huge loads of polka-dotted poppy-**** there.
Apple won't do a thing, although one of the "product specialists" told me to sell the MBP on eBay then buy another laptop. Moron.
Now the MBP is too hot so it doesn't work all the time. I can no longer take it anywhere, because it gets to hot. I can't keep any data on it. The optical drive no longer works, the airport is spotty at best.
Apple still won't do a thing. Unless, of course, I buy another laptop. At $2500 USD ... they should hope I don't speak badly about them.
Good luck to you!

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yeah im noticing this with mine now you say it
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Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I knew about someone would say something eventually, but given that it works most of the time, and only freezes up occasionally, like you I find it unlikely that this is the issue. I'm not saying it won't contribute to it (I know it can). The sad part of all this is I can't get it to replicate the space bar freeze up for me, and while I experience it when I go into the bays for the reporters, I have no idea what they have done up until that point in order to troubleshoot what they are doing wrong. I can and have run an install at the same time as editting video and not had a single slow down whatsoever, while several reporters have issues running PPro and notepad. One is running her yahoo mail in IE, and I think that is one of the problems she runs into (given how resource hoggy IE can be - especially on yahoo's webmail interface), but that's one person, not all of them.

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