I have one tiny hole in my sticker where the 7th screw holds the case together. I'm not even going to both sending this thing in for warranty for that reason and one other reason: I am going to frame this hard drive and hang it on my wall to remind me to always backup my data!

Luckily, I have a 48GB IBM Travelstar that I just pulled from my empeg a few months ago - that's going into the notebook now.

Thank you everyone for your support. Reading your posts let me approach this in a "the worst hasn't happened... yet" attitude.