Display and lock up problems with 3 week old MBP!!!

Hi all,
I hope that someone here can help with a scary problem that I have experienced with my (otherwise perfect!!) MBP!!
Occasionally, so far always after a boot up or wake up (but never on the login screen!), the MBP will lock up completely and the display will become corrupted as in the images I have posted below (fingers crossed!)!
As I said, it locks up the MBP so that the only action I can take is to force a reboot by pressing the On/Off button for the required amount of time.
I took the MBP to an Apple shop after making an appointment with a Genius (wonderful, lovely Spanish girl, name of Eva!!!!). Sadly, as the symptoms could not be recreated in the shop there was not a lot Eva could do, she did recommend a re-install of OS X, and also suggested that I let them have the MBP for a day so that they could hook it up to something (for a full eight hours!!) or other and test it. Eva did say that she had not seen the problem before (I took my camera to the shop and showed her the pics of the screen), but that it did not look good!!
So, I decided to take it back home and ask for help here!!!!
Any advice would be welcome!!!
Screenshot 1...
Screenshot 2...
Regards
Blakey

i would go back and show them these pics, also try doing stuff that is graphics intensive, my guess is that you have a bad video card, doing things that heat it up should get it to happen
one thing that you can use stress the vid car is the opengl example programs included with XCode (its included with the programs on the CD that came with the computer), so i recommend opening a few of those, and then doing a few `yes>/dev/null` in the terminal, also make the window semi-transparent, and put it on top of quicktime playing some movies, that should help stress the video card and put extra heat on it
if you can get that to consistently cause the problem then take it back to Apple

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