17" MacBook Pro Owners Get Graphic Relief

"Apple today posted MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 (770kb) which addresses the appearance of vertical lines or distorted graphics on the notebook display. According to the about page there are two parts to this process: Installing the firmware update application onto your hard drive. Using the firmware update application to update your graphics subsystem firmware."

Any of you folks have a 17" MacBook Pro?  Any of you have any luck with this update?  It'll be nice to see if it works because the accusations have been flying that the nVidia 9600 chip is actually defective.  If this fixes it, I guess that argument becomes moot.  Let us know in the discussions if yours has been resurrected.

(It should be noted that this update does not apply to the 15" MacBook Pro and is only for the 17" model.)