Were the 2009 MBP's affected by the NVIDIA problem? I am considering purchasing a mid 2009 Macbook Pro - 13", 2.53 GHz. 

However, someone advised me to beware of the NVIDIA graphics card problem they had in 'that time frame'. As I understand, the video would go out or flicker and in general make the machine hard to use.

After much google, it seems that the problem happened during the 2008 time frame - see here and here and here.

I can't seem to find a single case where a 2009 MBP failed due to the graphics card. Since I'm thinking about purchasing, I would like some confirmation that, indeed, 2009 13" Macbook Pros were NOT affected by the NVIDIA graphics problem.
The 2009 models do not have the affected chipset.

Apple publishes all repair extension and other "recall" type news at this page:


http://www.apple.com/support/exchange_repair/


You can use a tool like the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive to look at the contents of that page back to at least 2007 if you are curious if there was a program earlier and it's no longer on the main site.