Black color of images replaced by 'flicking blue'

Hi there,
More problems with the screen of a Macbook 13". It's just 8 months old and is my first issue. Since last weekend I'm getting problems with the darkest areas of the images displayed. In fact is almost a range near black which changes to a sort of 'electric blue' instead. Other colors are slightly changed too, but this is the most clear problem. Please see the snapshot in this link
http://picasaweb.google.com/aortizlovera/Mac#
In the picture, these blue areas should be seen as black. It also flicks a bit.
Any guess? It happened without having done anything to cause it (no software update, not being hit, etc.). For me seems like a problem with the graphic card.
Cheers in anticipated.

I have the similar problem, but flicker pixels only on center of the screen.
Can you connect your macbook to external display? If there is no blue areas, may be it is problem with matrix.
Or can you replace RAM modules with other? Macbook use part of ram as video memory.

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