Boot drive causes screen errors on other Macs - but not mine...?

Due to a recent accident, my MBP's 160 gig hard drive was damaged and is now unusable. (I was backed up, that's not the issue.) I've since been using a 100 gig, 2.5 inch external drive (which I erased and formatted for use with Intel Macs) as a boot drive but it's close to full, and now that I don't have any major projects at hand, I'd like to send the MBP in for repair. The problem is, when using the external drive to boot other Macs (my Mini at work, my girlfriend's MacBook) the display is all mixed up - some parts are visible, others aren't. I can recognize certain icons from my desktop and Dock, for example - but everything's scattered all over the screen, and any kind of motion - dragging, hiding and showing the dock, opening windows - causes "ghosting" and "trails". There seems to be no way I can use the drive on other computers while I wait for my laptop to be repaired. Why does it only work on my MBP, is it something in the way I formatted it? (GUID partition scheme, SMART status, etc.)
:/

I'm surprised by this just because I booted another Mac from an external drive with a clone of my system for a couple of weeks under similar circumstances and the Macs were not especially similar. G4 PowerBook which came with Tiger pre-installed and the machine-specific disks vs. G3 eMac which had come with Panther. I would have thought that MBP vs. MB would be, if anything, much less problematic than PB vs. eMac. I wonder how common such problems are.
I assume you've played with Display preferences etc.? Presumably, you use an external monitor with the mini. Do you know if drivers are available for that which you might be able to install. (I don't expect this is the problem but you might want to check just in case.)
- cfr

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