Vertical Green Lines

I am having a VERY annoying problem in final cut. All of my footage now has green vertical lines running through it.
Here is a picture of what it looks like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36458218@N08/4731527252/
When I open the source footage from the browser, everything looks fine, but the same clips in the timeline do not. If I do "replace edits" on all of the cuts, it fixes the problem temporarily, but soon it comes back. Exporting the video sometimes seems to help (i exported it once as prores from FCP and it was fine, I exported it once as H.264 through compressor and it had the lines).
I have also tried using a preferences manager to backup, delete, and restore my preferences but that didn't help.
Making a new sequence or even project and copying the cut over didnt help.
For the record this only seems to have affected this one project so far that I have noticed. I have opened the project on another mac and it worked fine.
Any ideas?? I am stumped. It sounds like it is my final cut, computer, or maybe video card? Im not sure and could use any advice you have.
Thank you

Called apple care today and they suggested I try the exported files on another comp to see if they work. They also suggested I make a new user account and try to run FCP there.
I don't have immediate access to another computer, BUT I did try the new account. Opening the exported H.264 file that I made in my main account still showed the green lines, but when I started FCP the problem didn't seem to be there (although since the problem was sometimes spotty that doesn't necessarily mean its fixed but I played with it for a while and seemed to be working). Also, I was able to export a copy of the film that did NOT have the green lines on it (when viewed from either account). So this leads me to believe it is a software based issue of some kind, although I can't really think of what to do.
Any suggestions?

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