Graphical Glitches- Safari and movies and beyond

I visited the Apple homepage today and watched the Quicktime ad for the MacBook Air. As it ended and the movie transitioned with the gradient field behind it, where multiple views of the Air could be chosen, there were black blocks that would flicker in and out during the transition. The same blotchy graphics occurred when switching between the different views of the Air. These glitches occurred when any image was opened in it's own browser window/tab as well. I also noticed on different websites and particularly long listed sites, like the support forums, that text would become "displaced," like pieces of graphics were copied over, duplicated and slightly off from where they should align with other text. I thought it was just a Safari issue but the glitchy text was also occurring in Mail and even the Finder. I had to restart to get it to stop duplicating and shifting text. I haven't had the black blocks occur again. Thought maybe it was a Flash issue but got more concerned when I began affecting apps beyond Safari. A graphics card issue, perhaps?
I hadn't noticed any of this before the Leopard Graphics Update a few days ago and it doesn't happen at all on my other Macs, just the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro (my other, older MacBook Pro has no issues with it). I was having that black screen after sleep issue that's been mentioned and think I've got that squared away only to find this issue.

Other topics about this very thing have stated that the problem only occurred when the MacBook Pro was running on battery power. I don't remember that being the case for me. It was after the graphics update so I'm wondering if that was the cause. It was said this issue was even seen on machines running Windows via BootCamp. But this only effects my newest MBP, not the older Core2Duo model. Some have said that the recent release of the Safari update cleared things up for them. I haven't installed it yet and still wonder why one Mac out of six I use only have suffered the issue.
I'm updating now to actually admit that after posting this topic that I've yet to have another problem with it, Safari, Mail, Finder or anywhere else.

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