Mac is very glitchy? objects have the wrong color?

whenever i play a game, play a video, or just on the internet, colors go wrong, items flash out of nowhere, and stuff freezes a lot. whenever i minimize a program such as safari, it still stays there but i can see it go down back into the dashboard. when i drag an app on the frozen safari, it looks like im drawing on it and it colors the desktop where ever i drag the app. once, i was playing sims 3 and the mountains were striped blue and red. the ocean was blood red, and the sky was green.(yes, very creepy.) i tryed turning off the mac for about 12 times now but the problem still persists. on activity moniter, i have 40 mb of page outs, and 391 mb of page ins.i have absolutly nothing on my computer since i just made myself an account and it says 98 GB left of space remaining? like what the **** just happened? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

That doesn't look good. I don't recall you saying which iMac you have exactly but it's time to get your install discs out and run the Apple Hardware Test in extended mode, post your results back and we'll see if we can figure it out.....hate to say but it sure looks like a failing GPU. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509

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