Graphics Card/Drivers Fail?

So I recently brought in my computer (Macbook Pro, 15" w/ 500GB 7200rpm, 2.2GHz quad core-i7, 4GB RAM, AMD Radeon 6750M w/ 1GB VRAM) to get the wireless card (and apparently some other stuff) replaced because it didn't work at all..
Now since I've gotten it back, I've had several noteable issues involving the graphics capabilities of my computer. I'll just note some which I deem more noteworthy.
I was playing some games on my Windows partition of my Mac and it blue-screened shortly after displaying a message of something with "graphics driver issues".
A while ago on my Mac partition, I brought up a youtube video and TF2 (which before getting things fixed would run very smoothly) and both were jumping a ton, like showing a stand-still image for a couple seconds before shifting to something else. In both cases, just the window/tab w/ the video and the game (+steam) were open at the time, but just recently it decided to run super slow.
I'm just wondering if I should be somewhat worried about the note-able flaws, because I've needed to take in my computer several times since buying it at the beginning of the school year for hardware failures, and I will be very annoyed if I need to do something about this.

I had the exact same problem - iMac running 10.6.6. Dreamweaver CS5 had run with no issues then started crashing when any of the "live" functions were selected - live view, live code or inspect.
I had been pulling my hair out then stumbled upon your reply to the posting here Dreamerz123.
It then dawned on me that I had recently performed an update on my HP printer software and had mistakenly allowed the update to also install this photo editing or viewing software. I had intended to uninstall it but got sidetracked.
Anyway to cut a long story short - I unistalled the software, rebooted my mac, opened dreamweaver, loaded a file I'd been working on, hit live view and voilà - working again
So I can confirm that there is a software conflict between the free photo viewing/editing software HP offer (sorry I can't recall it's exact name) and Dreamweaver CS5.

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