Display Wake Up/Strange Grainy Blueish-Green Pixels...

When my display (30" Cinema) goes to sleep and I come back to the computer, the screen looks really funky. It looks like my desktop colors are slightly distorted - I see lots of blueish-green pixels (dots) and lines. I've been able to get it back to normal by lowering the desktop resolution and then raising it back up for quite a while, even putting the displays icon on top so I could quickly remedy this situation.
At least, it used to. Now, this no longer works. Even when I lower the resolution, the blue-green pixels remain... What gives? I have the GeForce 7300 graphics card and recently installed 10.5 (though this issue was there with 10.4 as well - alas, I was hoping that this would have been fixed! but no..)
Any help would be extremely appreciated.

You are not alone. I get these Blue and Green pixels all over the screen from all my Macs that have been updated to OS 10.4.11 - This includes my G5 running an ATI X800. My work MacPro with the top of the line Quadro card and 30inch Cinema Display and my MacPro 17 inch Laptop. This occurs after awake from sleep or sometimes after screen saver or screen sleep returns. I reinstalled my wifes iMac intel Core Duo 1.8 Ghz to 10.4.10 and it has no issues anymore. I would say it is definitely an "upgrade" issue. I have seen many with Leopard also have this same issue or similar issues with their video cards. - BTW this issue was also in the very first versions of OSX Tiger for some configurations, so it is likely a ghost in the code somewhere.
Current solution for those in Leopard - don't let your computer sleep nor use screen saver. ( Use up electricity and make our environment dirty ) Tiger same or go back to zero with your system and update only to 10.4.10 at most maybe leave it even earlier. Problem there is security updates. On Tiger.. I notice if I ignore all those funky blinking blue and green pixels on my Photoshop screen for a while they sometimes go away, but it does annoy.
I first saw this in Windows XP installed on the 17" Macbook Pro laptop and it makes it impossible for me to use the rest of my Adobe Production Suite, which is windows only. For this there has been no solution, as the video drivers Apple gives us on the X1600 mobiles does not work right and ATIs don't install. But, I was surprised when I saw the same issue start to show up in all of my Macs after updating to 4.11.

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