Bad Video in FCP Canvas Window. Normal?

When I am scrubbing through the Canvas Window, I am get lots of distorted video. I posted a couple of screen captures to my Mobile Me gallery as examples.
http://gallery.me.com/jay.sims#100398
I am running a 27" Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM and 512 MB of video RAM.
I just recently upgraded to this current iMac from a '07 24" iMac. I did not have these issues with my old iMac, so now I am worried I may have a bad video card on my hands.
I have the most recent updates to FCP 7 installed.
Any ideas?

I have posted screen captures of my Sequence settings and clip properties in the gallery I linked to above.
I do not have exact answers yet for what is happening in the Viewer window or QuickTime Player. I tried scrubbing through a clip in the View window, but FCP crashed before I could see any results. I have not fully test QuickTime player yet.
I can add that this problem only seems to occur while scrubbing. Simply playing video in the Canvas window does not yield any bad results and everything looks fine.
Also, I moved all FCP folders and media to a different drive. That did not correct the issue.
And I have discovered that once the issues occurs I cannot render any video. Attempting to render video results in the message "Error! Out of memory.", which I assume is not a good sign.

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