Corrupted display, no explanation.

Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro (CD) that's almost a year old. I recently reformatted my hard drive and downgraded to 10.4.7 from 10.4.9 due to major stability issues. My computer was on all day, and I when I went over to check on it this evening, the display was really, really corrupted. The corruption was fixed with a restart, but it looked like my screen had been sliced all different ways. I've never had this problem before, and I don't think it would be from overheating, since I use a notebook chill pad and I keep my fans running at around 2000 RPM when plugged in. I've also noticed that since about January, the MBP's graphics performance has been lacking –even though I have the 256MB vram ATI card. I am a college student and can't afford to take my computer in before the end of the spring semester (mid-May).

I'm so happy to find this thread as that's why I'm hear mine has started doing the same and it's driving me insane. Another MBP user has suggested it's a logic board.
Anyone got any definitive answers ? I was thinking that maybe the "sleep image file" is corrupt that gets written out and maybe deleting that will help but i have no idea what that'll do to the system as a whole..
This will be my 2nd logic board fault if it is , to match the 2nd battery and the new CD drive ! How long before i have to scream at someone to get a Mac that works
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Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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