MacBook Display - Text Glows or Fades When Scrolling with Two Fingers

I am currently using an early 2008 MacBook Black, OS X 10.5.5, 2.4GHz Penryn, 4GB RAM (CAS 4), 250 GB HDD. I recently came into an Apple Store for a Genius Bar appointment because of a problem with the screen. When I use two finger scrolling and view text on a white background, the text appears to glow (especially blue text) or fade (black fades to an almost imperceptible gray. This behavior appears in Apple's Safari, Pages, Numbers; as well as, Safari. I have not tested beyond this yet.
The Genius at the store had no answer for this behavior and the other early 2008 MacBooks in the Apple Store (Walden Galleria, Buffalo, NY 14225) also exhibit this behavior. The Genius admitted this was annoying when viewing text and it appears to be a driver or OS problem because this behavior is also exhibited on the late 2008 MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
Suggestions?

It's a characteristic of LCD response time. There is nothing to be done about it except maybe experiment with different colors of text or backgrounds. That's not always practical, I know. Basically, we all have to live with it.

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