G4 QuickSilver Video Card Upgrade Advice

Hi all...I have a G4 QuickSilver 2001 867mHz Mac with its factory nVidia GeForce2 MX card in the stages of dying. It crashes the system when I attempt to boot in regular mode and will only start up in safe mode. I am 99.99% sure it is the video card going. It will occasionally boot in regular mode but the graphics become distorted when any graphic intensive action is taken (e.g., menu pulldown, scrolling, etc.) and will eventually hang or a kernal panic occurs. I have ruled out any software issue.
I would like upgrade the card and maybe venture into the world of Motion at some point after I upgrade the processor. I do video editing on FinalCut and DVD StudioPro also. But as you know, under safe mode, all these programs are useless as well as printing.
My question is: What card would you recommend? I am leaning toward a ATI RADEON 9600 PRO PC & MAC 256MB AGP CARD or better. To be honest, I am totally bewildered by the various cards, etc. out there and don't have a clue as to what is recommended and what my machine can accomodate.
Any help you can give I would greatly appreciate it.
G4 Quicksilver 2001 867mHz Mac OS X (10.4) SCSI Card, GeForce2 MX, Internal Zip, 2 60gb Internal HD, 1 120gb external HD, 1.5gb of RAM

Are you able to boot the Hardware Test Disk that
came
with your system? The Extended Test does a
thorough
test of the video card.
If you buy a replacement card be sure you can
return
it if it doesn't work in your system I recently
bought a Radeon 9600 pro PC/Mac 256 Mbyte board
for
my Quicksilver dual 800. Once it got started it
worked fine, but I had to try various combinations
of
CRT vs LCD monitors on each port to get it
started.
Then it would drive any combination. If the
machine
is put to sleep or shut down, it would have no
display again. After a while I could not get it
to
start at all. A replacement card and a
replacement
DVI to ADC adapter have not helped. Everything
still works if I reinstall the original GeForce 2
MX
Twinview card. I have read about others having
similar problems with Quicksilvers and some ATI
cards.
I suppose it would have been a good thing to mention
the monitor I am using. I have a Viewsonic Q95
Optiquest 20 inch monitor at the moment. It has, i
believe, a VGA connection to the card. I have heard
stories of such problems. Hopefully, someday, I will
upgrade to a G5 machine or at the least a Cinema
Display. Thanks for your help
Al
In response to your first question, I have run Hardware Test Disk, as well as TechTool Pro 4's test also...it always indicates the card is fine.

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