Distortion appearing when working on images

Hi, I'm having this terrible problem. When I'm working on my files (I'm using a Wacom intuos), like an image with many adjustment layers, there might be lines appearing on my screen. These lines are random. Sometimes they appear when I do an adjustment in the brightness of the image, sometimes they disappear. And the lines are slim and horizontal with different colours on it. Sometimes when I zoom in, they appear, when I zoom out, they disappear. And there was this time I do masking, and my mask gets distorted by a series of lines smudging out of it. This highly affect my work because I have got to redo the mask again.
I thought it could be my graphic card problem. But when I's on other programs other than photoshop, this problem is not there.
Anybody got any idea what this problem seems to be? Please, need your kind advice.
Thank you so much

I am using Mac Pro, running on leopard, just bought in January. The graphic card is ATI Radeon HD 2600. I am using a viewsonic monitor. I did dabble with the possibility of my monitor being faulty but I tried on other computers, it is working fine.
Worst thing now is, the problem is appearing randomly, at times it did not happened at all, at times quite severe. And the service centre I go to couldn't solve my problem most of the times(the other time I had another problem also with this Mac pro).
I am trying to search what is the problem, as in, is it a problem with my photoshop, my graphic card, my pen, or my monitor before I even lug my Mac pro to the service centre.
I did take a few screenshots but couldn't post here right? So I can only verbally describe the situation I face.

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