Icons Strangely Bouncing in Dock?

Recently I've had a lot of hickups thorughout the graphic of my system. I am running 10.8.3 on a three week old non-retina macbook pro. Today I launched safari and it bounced above the dock like normal, but continued falling below the dock and screen and went back and forth about five times. It definetly seems like a software problem, but could be and hopefully is not a hardware problem. Some other problems I see is flashing scroll bars when I switch through emails quickly. Is anyone esle experienceing anything similar? Is this normal with MACOS and I am worrying to much?
Thanks for the help!

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