Display getting distorted

For the past month or so, I started seeing this problem of screen display getting distorted. It will display patches several places. I have been using this MBP for almost 6 months or so.
This happens primarily when I work with graphic intensive applications, like i photo, google earth, imovie, etc. It happened few times with Pages and other editors also.
Once this happens, either kernel panic or the machine freezing is guaranteed.
I tried to call Apple care twice, both the times waited for 45 mins before it disconnected automatically .
I have few screenshots.
http://picasaweb.google.com/sivakumar.anna/MBPDisplayProblem

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