Rant: Ordering my new computer

So I've been contemplating upgrading my computer (beige 233).

I ordered the new iMac on Jan 7th, two hours after the Expo, after deciding to not wait for the towers. I bought Apple Care and an iPod. I told them to ship seperately, so I received my iPod (fedex express) and Apple Care (fedex ground, so I get it a week later after being told my school refuses fedex ground. I drove to the terminal to fetch it).

Last week, Monday, the towers came out. I cancel the imac order and place a 933mhz tower order. I return the Apple Care (at $10 to ship). I tell them to send UPS, because FedEx Ground can't ship to me. They say okay.

Yesterday, I call to find out what's happening, because this whole time I haven't received a single e-mail. I discover the tower shipped on the 28th, that it's Fedex Ground, and that my email address was listed as @browndot.edu (that's brown.edu, but completely incorrect).

Today, I spend 40 minutes talking to FedEx trying to find my package. Apparently it "slipped through" and got on the van even though all the terminals in the area know that my school doesn't accept ground. There's no number at the terminal, so I have to call FedEx several times before they call the terminal themselves to ask where it is. The van doesn't come back to the terminal until tomorrow morning. I'm SOL.

My option? I can go to an Apple Store an hour away (which has had the towers in stock all last week, mind you) and get the same computer IMMEDIATELY, then refuse shipment of the tower. The tower will get sent back to Apple without me paying for shipping, and I'll get a RMA to get a refund on that machine. I'll get my machine today, i'll refuse the ordered one tomorrow. Otherwise, I can pick up the super-delayed machine tomorrow morning at the terminal 20 mins away.

Is it worth it?