Weird "recoiling spring" sound coming from lower left corner of my macbook

My macbook pro 15" (2.16Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 100Gb 7200 RPM drive) has been emitting a weird spring-like sound since it was new. It doesn't do it all the time, and frequency seems to vary from once or twice every 15 minutes up to 2 or 3 times in one minute. It's been getting more frequent lately. It's not the famous "whine" at all. It sounds like a recoiling loose spring, and seems to be mechanical in nature. I have recorded it and put up the file as m4a in my website, here:
http://overcaffeinated.net/images/weirdsound.m4a
(it's about 5 seconds long, and the background noise that can be heard is probably me typing quietly, but the sound is very clear in second 4)
Activity in the machine seems to increase the frequency of the sound, but it also emits it when idle from time to time.
The sound seems to come from the lower left corner of the laptop, under the keyboard. From what I've found out, it seems the hard drive is located there, but I've never heard a drive emit this kind of sound. The performance of the machine seems completely unaffected by it, but it's starting to drive me crazy. Is this caused by software? Does anyone recognize this as a failing hard drive? Any clues are highly appreciated.
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Well, after re-searching the forums for "marble" instead of "spring" (this does seem like a better description of the sound), I found a few threads that reference this problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2226760&#2226760
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2907174&#2907174
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=755564
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2859490&#2859490
General consensus seems to be that the seagate drive is overzealous in parking the drive head, thus producing the "clunk". I'm running declunker, and it seems to keep the sound from happening (still have to test tonight, in a quiet room). I prefer the wear and tear from writing a temp file every 5 seconds to what parking and restarting the drive head so often might do.
Anyway, I'm marking this as "answered". Thanks a lot!
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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15:15:05.581555 887469430us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:05.683953 887571828us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:05.686200 887575073us tsft short preamble 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz
15:15:05.787243 887675122us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:05.787491 887676384us tsft short preamble 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz
15:15:05.787513 887676292us tsft short preamble 24.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -62dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:24:36:b5:b1:ae (oui Unknown)
15:15:05.787958 887676741us tsft short preamble wep 48.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -62dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Data IV:f97373 Pad 20 KeyID 0
15:15:05.813984 887702880us tsft short preamble wep 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz Data IV:557959 Pad 20 KeyID 0
15:15:05.814001 887702827us tsft short preamble 24.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -62dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:24:36:b5:b1:ae (oui Unknown)
15:15:05.834827 887723617us tsft short preamble wep 48.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -62dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Data IV:fa7373 Pad 20 KeyID 0
15:15:05.865436 887754336us tsft short preamble wep 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz Data IV:567959 Pad 20 KeyID 0
15:15:05.865459 887754241us tsft short preamble 24.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -63dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:24:36:b5:b1:ae (oui Unknown)
15:15:05.888764 887776627us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:05.991769 887879669us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.071407 887960245us tsft short preamble 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz
15:15:06.071429 887960155us tsft short preamble 24.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -63dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:24:36:b5:b1:ae (oui Unknown)
15:15:06.093591 887981423us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -62dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.196484 888084323us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.299025 888186873us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -85dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.400793 888288622us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.503168 888391023us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.605563 888493423us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.707981 888595823us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.772673 888660303us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -71dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon () [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 1, PRIVACY
15:15:06.810343 888698220us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.861764 888750650us tsft short preamble wep 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz Data IV:577959 Pad 20 KeyID 0
15:15:06.861779 888750592us tsft short preamble 24.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -63dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:24:36:b5:b1:ae (oui Unknown)
15:15:06.862044 888750930us tsft short preamble 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz
15:15:06.862066 888750836us tsft short preamble 24.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -62dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:24:36:b5:b1:ae (oui Unknown)
15:15:06.875022 888762703us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -72dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon () [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 1, PRIVACY
15:15:06.886199 888774984us tsft short preamble wep 48.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -63dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Data IV:fb7373 Pad 20 KeyID 0
15:15:06.912741 888800621us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:06.971458 888860263us tsft wep bad-fcs 11.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -72dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 [|802.11]
15:15:07.015135 888903019us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.091424 888980245us tsft short preamble 54.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz
15:15:07.091442 888980152us tsft short preamble 24.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -63dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:24:36:b5:b1:ae (oui Unknown)
15:15:07.117587 889005413us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.125876 889013789us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.127984 889015856us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.132118 889019993us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.141197 889029070us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.143044 889030921us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.144661 889032534us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.146884 889034751us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.150318 889038192us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.156746 889044465us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -58dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Request () [1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 Mbit]
15:15:07.157853 889045727us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.158168 889046813us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -58dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:1a:70:69:3e:e1 (oui Unknown)
15:15:07.172096 889059854us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -59dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Request () [1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 Mbit]
15:15:07.173238 889061116us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Response (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.173558 889062201us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -58dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Acknowledgment RA:00:1a:70:69:3e:e1 (oui Unknown)
15:15:07.219982 889107815us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.235923 889123641us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -59dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Probe Request () [1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 Mbit]
15:15:07.285927 889174682us tsft wep bad-fcs 11.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -72dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 [|802.11]
15:15:07.286174 889174892us tsft short preamble wep fragmented bad-fcs 6.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -72dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 BA RA:94:34:9e:83:01:eb (oui Unknown)
15:15:07.322402 889210210us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.424765 889312608us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.527170 889415016us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -61dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY
15:15:07.629564 889517412us tsft 1.0 Mb/s 2417 MHz 11g -60dB signal -86dB noise antenna 0 Beacon (Garden) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0 Mbit] ESS CH: 2, PRIVACY

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Could the fan be broken/loose? I sprayed some air into the keyboard to get rid of dust but nothing changed. I recently ran out of my Applecare warranty last September. Thanks in advance!

Hey
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Try this artile: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 for an SMC reset.
If that does not work make sure all of your software is up to date. If it is, you may have a hardware problem.
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Regards,
Britt.

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