Does anyone else have the buggy VGN-AR31S?

I bought the extremely expensive flagship sony laptop VGN-AR31S
yesterday. I got it home and started up. The very fist thing I did was
look for windows explorer to check the hard drive size. Annoyed by the
stupid vista menu I switched the start menu to classic view. Then I
tried to drag and drop windows explorer to the top level of the start
bar. Can you belive - it crashed with "Windows Explorer has stopped
working". Liternally this was the first thing I did on the machine
before connecting to internet or anything! The whole build is corrupt.
I played for it last night and found the following problems:

(1) Crash if you try to drag and drop menu intems in the start menu.
This does not happen if you turn User Account Control Off (not
reccomended).

(2) After a reboot the wireless network reconnects but IE and all
other apps find no internet connection. You have to manually close and
reopen the wireless network.

(3) Playing a blue ray DVD crashes if you set it to fast forward with
16 speed and leave it a few minutes.

(4) Playing a DVD without the power cord in causes the CVC to run so
slow its dreadful.

This is absolutely insane....

Anyone else have this machine?

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