Display oddity- What in the world?

A grand total of two times, the screen on my MacBook Pro (13' Mid 2010) has demonstrated the symptom in the picture below.  Both times, in conjunction with Mail.app being in use and the "frontmost" application.  Quitting Mail would remove part of the funky display, but any further opened windows would also show some of this oddity.  A reboot fixed both times. It has been nearly two months since the last occurence.
Here is my GPU info:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 320M
  Type:          GPU
  Bus:          PCI
  VRAM (Total):          256 MB
  Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:          0x08a0
  Revision ID:          0x00a2
  ROM Revision:          3533
I do not have AppleCare.  Warranty expired back in January of this year.
As I stated - has only happened twice - most recent was right about two weeks after the warranty expired!

Yes, you are seeing that correctly - a perfectly clar right angle/rectangle.
That's why I was pondering that it was a code glitch - the only affected area of the screen is the partial content of the mail.app window - and only the portion of the window where the mail message would be displayed (no message was selected at the time - so nothing was in that part of the window).
And as I said - it happened both times on launch of Mail.app.  Never has affected any other apps - just the two times (separated by nearly 2 months) launching mail.app.

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