Strange behavior of the Macbook pro display

Hi to all
I'm using my MacBook pro, and notice some strange behavior after open several windows or applications, I don't know how to explain, so here is a photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86155326@N00/
I have tried: go back to 10.4.6 / create a new account / Hardware test... and Nothing.
Any suggestions?
Pedro

I am having the exact same problem(and no one is replying to my post either), I read in another post of someone who had a somewhat similar issue and someone commented that it was bad VRAM and warranted the logic board to be replaced. I'm hoping this is not the case, or at least hoping the problem does not get worse because I am in school and can't be without this computer for 2 weeks while it gets repaired..I'm hoping I can last til the holidays...
pictures of my problem:
http://www.rpi.edu/~neala/pics/display/Messed%20up%20desktop.png
http://www.rpi.edu/~neala/pics/display/Picture%204.png
Sometimes I can make it go away by moving windows, and sometimes that makes it worse... this computer is only 100 days old...come on apple..help us out!

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