Blinking menu items glitch

We just upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and everything is working well except the menu items in the top righthand corner appear briefly then disappear in a cycle. Has there been a fix discovered? There is a youtube video of a fix involving Mobileme and the sync menu, but this didn't work for me.

hi there..
i had the same problem when i bought my imac couple months ago....i called the apple care support and they were able to fix the problem asap...in my case they guided me to delete some files that is causing the problem

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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
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