Warping Around Battery

I got a new macbook for Christmas, and after two weeks of light use have a bit of warping. Specifically, the grey plastic on the front left edge of the keyboard is peeling away from the white plastic. Also, the battery no longer sits flush.
As of now, the problems are minor. The spot on the front edge is maybe an inch wide, and only wide enough to slide a piece of paper into. The place where the battery is off is a bit worse than that. I'm wondering whether:
1. This is something that other people have experienced with rev2 Macbooks? I've heard of the MacBook Pros warping around the battery, but not seen reports of the same thing for the Macbooks.
2. Whether this is the sort of thing that Apple will fix, or if I'll have to wait for it to get worse? I feel a little silly complaining about small problems, but the whole reason I switched to a mac was to not have to deal with small problems.
3. After wandering around the support site for awhile, I'm a bit confused -- is there really no way to e-mail in a support request?
I can post pictures if they'd be helpful,
ross
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

...except that is for the Macbook Pro, not the Macbook.
If you suspect your battery is warping, I would immediately contact Apple or have the computer looked at an Apple Store. A defective battery is a potential safety issue and should not be ignored.
As for the battery not sitting flush, every Apple notebook i've owned has had a non-flush battery. It could be that you didn't notice it when you first got the computer (like me), but the fit of the battery should not change significantly over time.

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