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- parts of windows started showing up in random places (like behind the apple icon, on top of the time stamp, in my dock,
- some parts of the screen go black and
- the mouse freezes
- all applications freeze at times and i can't do anything but wait (a very long time) or hard reboot.
This happens constantly... I can get a maximum of 30 minutes working IF I am lucky!
I can not replicate the problem by preforming certain tasks as it is sporatic and happens regardless of the application I am running. I continue to reboot and hope for a solution. I am now writing from a PC, which I hate, but I have deadlines that must be met.
Any ideas? I am at a loss, an avid Mac user and fan, and need it to work again.
Thanks for any help.

and since that post just a few minutes ago, a new problem has shown it,s ugly head...
the keyboard is not working. i can mouse onto an email and choose delete from the icon in iMail, but I can not type, hit the delete button, etc.

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