Colors All Messed Up, SERIOUS vid card/driver problem

ok, so i'm just surfing the net tonight in firefox, nothing unusual, no other programs on except coreduotemp, which is reading at a steady 65-70 and all of a sudden, the colors on the screen went haywire. i could see the shapes, move the cursor around and read lettering, but the colors looked like 1 bit colors, like 10 total colors with no gradations and very very washed out!
what the heck could be going on with my machine?
so i tried to restart... same thing. everything would look normal until one second after mac os booted up, it'd revert to the weird willy wonka coloring. so i tried a complete shutdown and waited 30 minutes to see if it was a heat issue. same thing.
then i tried booting to windows xp... it worked perfectly! the irony of it all.
booted back into mac os. willy wonka again. so i went to systems preferences and tried to change resolution. still messed up. so i changed colors from "millions of colors" to "thousands". still messed up. but when i changed it to "256 colors" it looked almost normal again. no more willy wonka colors but now looks terrible, like i'm working on an old commadore 64.
so i'm just going to take it back in tomorrow to the apple store and demand a new computer. i'm just curious to see if anyone else have had this issue or what the heck could be going on.
MacBook 1.83GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

well, i just changed the RAM back to the stock 2x256 sticks. still the same problem.
i've been trying to figure out if macs have an "update video driver" function like windows does. i even went to intel's site to see if i could download a new driver for macs, but no luck. (this is my first mac so i'm not familiar with how mac vid cards update their drivers).
also did a system update, didn't change anything.
ack, i'm so used to fixing my computer problems myself, this is really frustrating about mac so far...

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