Fine vertical lines on MBP 15" late 2008

Hi all,
I have an MBP late 2008 with some display issues. I've seen the 'striping' issue posts, and this one is a little different. It originated as fine veritcal grey lines, (i.e. every-other pixel column was grey). The issue spontaneously apears and only disappears after a reset, but sometimes the reset does not fix the problem. The computer software is up to date and it is running 10.5.8. I reset the NVRAM and the SMC and the grey lines turned black, so now it just looks like a low-res screen and is hard to read. Moving the display doesn't change the distortion. A screen shot transferred to another computer looks normal, so I'm guessing the logic board is OK. Any thoughts?

I have noted a link to the latest version for Windows XP.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/BootCamp___Windows_XP_Drivers_Update_21
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