Bizarre lines around windows; strange screen problems

My Macbook has been acting strange lately. I'm attaching a few images so you can see what's happening with my display. Sometimes, after I exit a program and return to the desktop, I get strange patches of white/gray boxes on the screen. Logging off and back in clears the boxes. Now I have vertical lines around all my open windows.
Any ideas?
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That doesn't sound good. Run the hardware test that came with your computer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081
If nothing appears there, do you have any software that modifies the operating system that you aren't sure has been tested with the operating system release you have? When specs call for 10.5.x and higher, they do not mean 10.6.0, 10.6.1, or 10.5.2 through 10.5.8.

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