my advice, keep demanding a new one from dell until you are satisfied, heck they might run out and you may be able to get one of thew new versions.
Anyways, sorry to go off topic, just my view on it all.
This looks like a decent monitor though.
ok, stop being such a Dell hater.
You obviously have backlight bleeding, even if it was a thing you only saw from the center, it's not like you are going to move your head to the left and right all the time.
Also for less than 400 bucks you can get a 2005fpw shipped, free shipping. Also...