T410 - weird S.M.A.R.T. data - Hard drive failing?

Hello,
when I chcked S.M.A.R.T. attribtues of my hard drive (Seagate ST9500420AS) with smartctl (popular S.M.A.R.T. reporting tool used in Linux), I got results like this
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Momentus 7200.4 series
Device Model:     ST9500420AS
Serial Number:    (...)
Firmware Version: 0003LVM1
User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is:    Sat May 14 17:42:20 2011 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
(smart capability info cut to save space)
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   114   099   034    Pre-fail  Always       -       63705793
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       74
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   065   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       3607676
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       130442451746921
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       73
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       14
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   062   053   045    Old_age   Always       -       38 (Lifetime Min/Max 37/38)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       5565
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       7443
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   038   047   000    Old_age   Always       -       38 (0 17 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   051   043   000    Old_age   Always       -       63705793
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x000f   100   100   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       40 (3679, 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
254 Free_Fall_Sensor        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       102         -
# 2  Vendor offline      Completed without error       00%         0         
The attribute Reallocated_Event_Count is the one which worries me. As You can see the value is non-zero and is still increasing. Does it mean that my hard drive is gaining more and more reallocated sectors due to some surdace problem? I wonder if smartctl is parsing the data in the right way. Is it possible that hard drives shipped by Lenovo as a part of ThinkPad use non-standard firmware and write some value unrelated to reallocation events.
GSmartMon utiliy (a Linux graphical front-end for smartmon/smartctl) parses this value as alarming, S.M.A.R.T. applications for Windows give ambiguous advices - some say my hard drive is failing, some say it doesn't.
The basic question is - is my hard drive starting to fail or weird value of mentioned attribute is some non-standard feature added by laptop manufacturer?

Backup was the first thing that I did So... Your opinion seems to support my concerns about this drive. In addition - trial version of HD Tune Pro parses mentioned S.M.A.R.T. data as "warning".
I'm wondering why Reallocated_Sector_Ctvalue is not growing at all? Failed reallocaton attempts?

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