G5 ATI 1900 Green an Purple Video in FCP

Hello,
I've got this weird problem it looks like this
http://support.elgato.com/index.php?m=knowledgebase&a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=3097
in my video windows on FCP. I Have OS 10.5.5, QT 7.5.5. It's a G5 with an ATI 1900 video card. The strange thing is if I click on the finder the issue goes away but then if I click on the FCP screens it comes back. I've trashed prefs, done cahce cleaning, repaired permissions.
I've been searching this problem out and have seen no recent (Since last week 10/9 ish) reports.
Any solutions? Please advise.
Best,
Elroy.

Here's some other link to what seems like the same problem
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1717283
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8126529&#8126529
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1718561&tstart=0

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