Stuck Pixel Vanishing Act.

I have an iPhone that was bought at 0-Hour. It's worked flawlessly, with no stuck or dead pixels on the screen. Until 4 days ago.
Dead center of the screen, a stuck Blue Pixel has popped up. The odd thing is though, that it's only stuck for 15-20 minutes in the morning (or after a rather long period of not using it). After that, it'll switch between working and being stuck rapidly for 3-5 minutes, then work as normal. It will work 100% until I put the phone to rest and use it again hours later. Then it starts all over again with a stuck Blue Pixel for 15 minutes...
I've owned plenty of devices with stuck and dead pixels, but never had one pop up close to two months into the device's life. I've also never seen one correct itself like this one does. So what I'm wondering is, anybody seen this before, and what happens in the end? I expect that one day it just won't correct itself, and will be stuck on Blue all the time.
And the super frustrating part; it refuses to get Stuck while I'm near an Apple store. The great folks at the store can't help me if I don't have a problem while I'm there...

Yeah, it definitely goes back to working. As you said, it's stuck, so it's very noticeable against a black background. It's located between icons, so on the Home screen it's very easily seen. When it's in the process of "fixing" itself, it will fade to black and pop back to Blue, or just flick from Black to Blue really fast (assuming I'm on the Home screen, and Black is the background color. It will actually fade to whatever color it should be when it's fixing itself).
I loaded some solid color images into iPhoto so I could view them on the iPhone. When the pixel is stuck, it's Blue against every single color (though being hard to see against light backgrounds). After it corrects itself, the pixel turns the correct color making it impossible to find no matter what color is chosen.

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