Upgrading Hard Drive from 200GB (7,200rpm) to 320GB (7,200rpm)

I very much would like to upgrade the hard drive in my MacBook Pro 17" from the supplied 200GB 7,200rpm to the newer larger capacity of the 320GB 7,200rpm being recently made available.
I purchased my MacBook Pro 17" as a custom spec in the second half of 2008. At the time it had to be ordered as a custom spec in order to have it supplied with the maximum 4GB RAM, only weeks before it became a standard spec on the current MacBook Pro 17" along with the new option of having the larger 320GB 7,200rpm fitted.
I need at least 250GB to 300GB available hard drive space on my portable MacBook Pro, without the need to have to plug in any from of external unit (MacBook Pro only). I have installed some very large applications such as Apple Logic Studio, Apple Shake 4.1, Apple Final Cut Studio and some other's to name but a few, which have left little to no realistic working space, nor any realistic space for many additional user files which I later would like to store and be readily available on the MacBook Pro and not some inconvenient external drive which I would only use for time machine and archiving. The extra 120GB available on the newer 320GB 7,200rpm that was introduced and made available weeks after I obtained my unit, would certainly give a much needed working/storage capacity and with the much needed rotational speed of 7,200rpm as currently with mine being necessary for music studio use and HD video editing.
Hard drive aside, I understand and am led to believe that the current MacBook Pro 17" currently and basically is the same unit as with my MacBook Pro 17" and Apple themselves pointed me in the direction of legitimate authorized Apple service and repair centers for arranging a hard drive upgrade. Using an authorized service/repair centre is necessary in order to keep the (extended 3 year) warranty intact. Trouble is on contacting the authorized service centre, they then allegedly checked this with Apple themselves before getting back to me and saying that it would not be possible due to the possibility of overheating from the newer drive, yet my MacBook Pro 17" runs quite cool with it's current 7,200rpm 200GB drive.
Is my MacBook Pro 17" doomed and I therefore can't upgrade to the larger 320GB drive at the same 7,200rpm spindle speed? Is my only choice to get-rid of the MacBook Pro I currently have? To be able to upgrade to the now fitted 320GB 7,200rpm drive in the current MacBook Pro's 17" would help me 'no end' and save me from having to ever consider selling all that I've invested with Apply recently, that would be a shame.

Thanks for both your suggestions.. I see that http://www.barefeats.com/ has some very useful info which I found on this page http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp08.html
Here they show both the WD Scorpio Black 7K 320G (320GB 7,200rpm) and the Hitachi 7K320 HDD (320GB 7,200rpm) drives to be both quite suitable, with the latter being the one installed on current MacBook Pro 17' notebooks as an option.. however I am now becoming excited at the option of possibly being able to upgrade to the new Seagate Momentus 7200.4 which will feature 500GB of storage, 7200rpm and 9.5mm thickness, this really would help me very much for my intended use and all self contained within my MacBook Pro 17".
However I am really left feeling a bit still unsure and weary as to the full and total compatibility for upgrading to one of these with my current MacBook Pro because of what the authorized Apple service/repair centre had told me. They seemed quit adamant at the time having took my MacBook Pro's serial number and then checking that with Apple technical as to it's compatibility to upgrade from it's current factory fitted 200GB 7,200rpm drive to the 320GB 7,200rpm HDD now on offer as an option to the current MacBook Pro 17" models.
Therefore just to re-confirm, I have a MacBook Pro 17" Intel Duo 2.6GHz 4GB RAM 1920x1200 display 200GB 7,200rpm drive, which I purchased around August/September 2008 only weeks before the 320GB 7,200rpm drive became an option on newly ordered MacBook Pro's (I missed this option by weeks). For absolute verification, my MacBook Pro 17" system information is as follows:-
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
SMC Version: 1.28f1
As you can see my Model Identifier is: MacBookPro4,1
With these details, could it be verified that this/my MacBook Pro 17" would be fully compatible with any of these three aforementioned drives? i.e. the following three models (especially the 500GB seagate):-
The WD Scorpio Black 7K 320G (320GB 7,200rpm)
and/or
The Hitachi 7K320 HDD (320GB 7,200rpm)
and/or especially
The new Seagate Momentus 7200.4 with 500GB of storage, 7200rpm and 9.5mm thickness
or maybe any other very Large capacity and fast operational drive that may improve over the three drives mentioned above.
All help and confirmation is very appreciated, thanx..

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