24" imac video anomaly..anyone know?

Hi all,
I just recently purchased a customer order 24" imac with the bigger HD, Vram and sys. ram and it is sooooo nice.
But later that day (after about 5 hours of use) as I was setting up all my preferences, I noticed that the screen kinda flickered briefly and returned back to the finder. All seemed fine, but the mouse buttons would not respond and the keyboard wouldn't respond. The mouse arrow would move but that is all. I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in just in case it was a USB keyboard driver that needed to be reloaded.
And I couldn't restart because I had no keyboard usage. So I had to hold down the power button on the back for a force shutdown and then I restarted, It came up to the finder just fine, and I have never encountered it since, but now I'm kinda worried that there might be vid problem. I'm not sure.
Has anyone heard about this and is there a good hardware diagnostic application out there instead of Techtool? I love Techtool, but I would have to wait for them to mail me a DVD since you can't download it off there website anymore?
Sorry about the long post, and thank you in advance for your help.
Eddy

Was your machine running off a UPS at the time, or was it plugged directly into a wall outlet? If the latter, I suspect a momentary power glitch in your electric service caused this problem.
20" iMac CD (early '06)   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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