Corners of screen are bleeding white light! URGENT!

Hi
I just bought a Intel-based iMac Core Duo 20" a few days ago. Not the glossy screen version.
Really would like to hear from a lot of people about this before I contact apple:
The corners of my screen appear to be bleeding a small amount of white light, most notably from the lower right. This is very visible when watching movies, when the scene is very dark or pitch black, my monitor isn't.
I was wondering if this is just something that 20" screens do, because my old 4:3 19" DVI certainly doesn't do this.
Several ways to test if your monitor does this:
photoshop: make a black document and press F twice to go full screen, now press TAB to remove the tools.
front row: open any movie and pause before it starts, hopefully on a black screen.
Would really really appreciate a lot of responses to this. It may be a problem with the mac, may just be normal, I have no idea.
Here is an image of what happens: (slightly exaggerated due to the long exposure and offset angle)
[img]http://static.flickr.com/66/227949822_b6c9331eec.jpg[/img]

Is there a glossy screen version of the iMac? That would be news to me...
My 20" Cinema Display does this, though only from a specific viewing angle. It's not visible when looking at the display straight on. I believe the effect is somehow caused by the anti-glare coating and how it refracts the light, because the color of the "leakage" changes with the viewing angle.
My 20" iMac uses a different, more reflective anti-glare coating and the "leakage" effect is there, but very subtle, not as bad as in your picture. So I guess Apple uses different LCD panels in the iMac and it depends on your luck of the draw...

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