Xbox 360 and the Red RING OF DEATH!

I originally waited 1 full year to avoid the plague of the original launch - yet to my surprise I still fell victim to it. What I am talking about is the 3 Red Ring of Death. I bought my XBOX 360 in Dec. 2006. I worked flawlessly until the beginning of June, then I was playing online my machine froze - it never froze ever! I tried to turn it back on and got the 3 red ring of death. I spoke to a lot of people online apparently there still is a large problems with heat issues with the console. I called customer service 2 times until I finally received my empty shipping box to send my xbox 360 in for repairs. It took 10 days to receive the empty box, 3 days to ship it back to Allen, Tx, another 7 days to fix it and finally another 3 days to get it back. It should arrive TODAY! I am leary if they fixed my or gave me a refurb? I will let you all know.

In the meantime, I went out and purchased a core system and just attached my hard drive from the original premium console. I will probably keep the core system as a backup as I have heard people having to have their boxes repaired multiple times!

WHY doesn't Microsoft FIX THE PROBLEM??? It's not like they aren't making money!???