HELP! MBP Screen Going Crazy!

Hi Everyone,
Been having screen problems with my MBP 2.66 Core i7 the past couple months. The computer's barely a year old and I've kept it in pristine condition.
Problem is, I'll be surfing or doing Photoshop editing and all of a sudden, whichever window I have open in front of me "looks" like it starts to duplicate itself again and again onscreen, then in random order, completely filling the 17" screen with garble, even covering the dock - a complete mess!
After about 5 seconds, if I mouse over the dock, it appears as normal...if I choose Safari, my latest Safari browser comes to the forefront and "hides" the remaining screen mess behind it, same if I continue to choose other dock items already open. But then again within 10 seconds, the scattered mess begins all over again and takes over my entire screen. Sound familiar to anyone?
I've rebooted, run sbin/, repaired permissions, run Drive Genius, etc. My MBP i7 runs both the Intel HD Graphics and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics. When this started a couple months ago, it happened maybe once in 3 weeks...now it happens every 2 days. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
- CIndy

Yes, from what you tell it sounds like you have too.
If the store you bought it at are closer, then they should be helpful with getting it repaired/sent away for repair. - But here in Norway I just contact the care point and send it/bring it myself because it takes less time..

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