Faint Ghosting on X220 IPS screen

ADMIN EDIT:
There are two items being discussed in this thread:
1) A backlight bleed issue as described by SR45 - we are investigating this, but have seen only a couple users noting this so far.
2) "Ghosting" or persistence of  an after-image phenomena after a static image is maintained on the display for 15 or more.   This comprises the bulk of the discussion on this thread.
Not all customers have observed this, nor view it as an "issue".  See related thread with counter point.
I've already posted on the notebookreview forum and thought I would also leave a message here as well to cover all forums to get some more feed back.
I have tested this out a few times now, and I get a faint burn in (ghosting) when using a dark background and even  a light blue backgrounds when rebooting the system immediately after downloading and installing some software.  When this was first noticed, I just booted up to IE 9 and the google page with my favorite sites on the extreme left side for about a minute, than I rebooted the system.  During the boot up, I could see the faint outline of the task bar at the bottom, the favorites vertical line that seperates the favorites from the main google page. 
One or more members with the X220 on the notebookreview forum have noticed the same thing, and wonder if anyone else has seen this as well.  Trying to figure out if this is wide spreed or just a few bad panels.
Thank you
One picture of the vertical line is posted on the link below.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/578520-faint-ghosting-finally-noticed.html
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I have the exact same problem. I noticed that I was getting this pseudo burn-in (and also quite a lot of backlight bleed). I returned my x220 and ordered a new one, same configuration. The new one just came, and it has the same ghosting problem as the first. Note that the ghosting does not take hours to occur: all I need to do is leave my web browser open for about fifteen minutes and then switch to another screen with dark background, and the UI elements will appear faintly burned into the screen, all over whatever text I'm processing (I use a text editor with a dark background, for programming). This is totally unacceptable, and I'm very disappointed. At this point, I don't know what to do: I've tired both linux and windows, and returning the laptop for a new one. It seems like I am going to have to return this second one too, and I don't think I am going to try and get a third laptop. This is very disappointing, because the rest of the compter is very nice.
Has anyone NOT had this problem with the IPS displays on the x220? Has anyone had this problem and fixed it? Can someone from lenovo please comment? More than anything, I want to be able to own this laptop and like it, but I can't when I've been convinced that the "premium" display has consistent defects.

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    I've done a search now and it seems I'm not alone with this issue
    PS:
    I'm attaching two photos.
    First is the X220 (booted into GNU/Linux with X running and mouse as reference).
    Second is the very old Z60m (booted into Windows and running blank screensaver).
    Compare for yourself which one you would prefer.
    It was shooted in absolute dark (I'm used to work like that) with Canon EOS350D on tripod.
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    Link to image 1
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    Link to image 2
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    Unfortunately I don't have any good low-light camera that takes useable pictures in dark environment so I can't post relevant images of the backlight bleeding.

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