Lion display

I've got an early 2009 Mac Mini and upgraded to Mountain Lion on July 26 after going to a website that used Flash Video my video display went crazy to the point I had to do a Hard Shutdown then restart.
I upgraded the release (August 23 2012) hoping this would resolve the issue but it doesn't..
I am using a 42" TV via HDMI but this was never a problem with OS X Lion???
I have talked to apple support but they were not able to resolve the issue, so I've scheudled another call for Sunday to see what happens...
Otherwise I think I am going to have to ask for my money back as the OSX is totally unusable for me.

Thanks I just tried your suggestion and my computer did the same thing this time on the apple.ca home page..
I'm on my iPad right now and can't seem to upload the video or picture I took of the problem...
But the screen just starts scrolling really quickly then everything freezes forcing me to hard restart

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MacGuy From Hungary wrote:
Take a screenshot with Command-Shift-4 and move that beautiful image over to your file server.
Open the image up in Preview.
Select an area of the image and hit Command-K to crop it.
Print the image (this step really doesn’t matter, but it’s here to give you an idea of why you would do this in the first place).
Close the image.
Open the image again and try to find a way to get your original image back. Buh-bye, no more pretty screen-shot.
Cry.
Did you actually try those steps?
That is a rhetorical question - of course you didn't. If you had, you would have noticed that as soon as you attempted Step # 5, Lion displays the following dialog:
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