Faint Lines in Lion Finder Sidebar

After upgrading to Lion (10.7.1), I noticed faint horizontal alternating lines in the Finder sidebar when viewed at high or low vertical angles, as well as any other application that uses the same color blue in its active sidebar. This occurs on my Macbook Pro 17 inch, mid 2010, matte display (see attached screenshot). On my Mac Pro (2007) running Lion 10.7.1, the Finder sidebar appears as a smooth gradient.
Taking a screenshot and sampling the gradient colors in Photoshop indicates the lines are there on the Macbook Pro, but on the Mac Pro the blue is a smooth gradient.
Does anyone else experience this behavior?

Go to /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences and trash these two files:
*(Note that to get to Library you must go to your "Go" menu holding option key)
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then, restart.(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)

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