The home button on my iPad 2 isn't working, what should I do?

I recently got an iPad 2 for Christmas a couple of months ago, I've had 10 iPhones from iPhone 1 through to 4s and I know how much pressure to apply to the home button and not to press it too hard. And on my iPad it doesn't seem to be consistent it works around 20% of the time but I have to use the pinching 4 fingers thing the other 80% of the time and to be honest this isn't what I expect. What should I do?

Francescaalucy,
    It sounds like there is a problem with the iPad 2 that turning it on and off wouldn't fix, as you have said. So you may want to schedule and appointment with the Genius Bar and see what they say because that sounds like a manufacturing issue.

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