Have never seen this before maybe you can help.

Hi,
Well, first off. I love my MPB, Love it to bits...but... recently I learned of the Nvidia problem and at first I was paranoid, but then I said I'll be ok for now... but... then this happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVxz5Lc47PY
Now at first I thought it was just my applications, but eventually I found out it still does it even in just the finder. It seems to me like the display is trying to turn off but something is waking it, but almost instantaneously its getting the command to turn off again, Thats just my idea, any help on this would be greatly appreciated

Ok, I know its been a long time since this was posted but In that time I've managed to get even more information. I enabled the debug report and background crashes notification from the developers tools. Now every time my laptop screen goes black I find an error report saying screensaver has crashed, so from this I've eliminated faulty wiring etc, it seems the controller for the screen going black is the screensaver engine. I found this odd and went into system preferences to see if something happened when i went to the screen saver tab, and low and behold it did, every time i switched from the desktop tab to the screen saver tab system preferences crashed also just shortly before it crashed I noticed that none of my screen savers were listed yet the error report said that I was running the abersque screen saver. So i went to the library>screen savers folder and their were no screen savers stored there, not even my old custom ones. So i went to my user folder and checked the screensaver folder there, and they were gone too. Now I know many people would suggest a re-install of mac OS X but this problem actually started before I did a re-install and it's still continuing at the moment so i went to check my time machine back up of my old system and checked the screensaver files there and they were missing also... in EVERY save that time machine had made, can anyone help me with this, it's really maddening

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DSL
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Westell
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Linxsys
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