MacBook Pro thunderbolt show flickering with 24-inch Cinema Display

Hello,
I see other people are having this problem of the cinema display flickering and going completly black for a couple of seconds.
Is this on Apple's radar?  Is there a fix pending?
From what I can tell the problem was first reported 7 weeks ago.
thx
Lach

I am having the same issue.  My screen will flicker at a steady pace about once every 3 to 5 seconds, the flicker its self is maybe half a second long tops. 
Needless to say this is completely annoying!  Was not a problem until today, I thought I was lucky to have avoided the horror stories of Thunderbolt display problems.  This is another thing I can add to my growing list of annoyances with a $2400 computer.  It is sad really.  I can hook up an Asus netbook to my 1080p display with no problems but somehow one of the fastest laptops available has issues being hooked up to an external monitor. 
I want to love my MacBook but unfortunately it has been annoyance after inconvenience after just plain silliness with this computer. 
Please fix this Apple.
The monitor I use is a 23" Samsung 1080p display through a Thunderbolt to DVI connection. 
10.6.7 Build 10J4138

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