Red Rings of Death...Harddrive contamination...has this happened to anyone else?

I recently got the infamous "red rings of death." However, it was not my console: it was my harddrive.Here is how it went down.

I turned on my system to play Halo 3 with my son and saw the rings...I totally freaked out, but eventually got over it because my neighbor said he'd lend me his Xbox for the night. I brought his Xbox over, plugged in my harddrive to his system, and what do you know, his system goes to red rings. I called microsoft and told them that my harddrive ruined two systems and they said that that was impossible. I then took my harddrive to EB games and they hooked it up to one of their test stysems...same thing: red rings. I then called microsoft back and flipped out. They agreed to let me send my harddrive in to replace it. I also had to send them my console.

Has anyone else had harddrive issues? As far as I know, noone else has had this happen.

Now here it sit...Xboxless and waiting. I should have bought a PS3!