Very real heat issue with Retina Mac

I'm running Temperature Gauge by Tunabelly Software, a trusted app. It has shown me several times in the last two days that two or 3 of the CPU cores report back as 90 C. Average fan speed coming in at 5065.
Am being cautious in how I use it - not on soft surface - all vents unobstructed - space between bottom of laptop and hard surface.
The app has actually suggested several times that I shut the machine down or close apps. I'm not running it that hard - actually ordered it with maxed out options so I could use it for much more than this.

bluztoo wrote:
I'm running Temperature Gauge by Tunabelly Software, a trusted app.
Hmm...I've seen a couple of reports about Temp' Gauge. Run smcFanControl as well and compare the results.

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EDIT: this post got removed the first time for not being constructive enough. I've now edited the post.
This is going to be a lengthy post, so bear with me.
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