My Computer is nuts! HP Pavilion dv2500 CTO, vista

I have had this computer for a year now, and literally there days after the default warranty expired I have had nothing but trouble from it.
Random types of blue screens, shutdowns, reformats, factory default settings, virus scans, the works.
Most of the issues get ironed out magically over time for some reason that makes no sense to me. I am a computer science major, I can fix everyone elses computer but mine it seems. The errors, and reasons are beyond myreasoning, and honestly baffle me.
I am lead to beleive that these problems are hardware related since recently when i tried to reformat, it took six or seven tries with the windows discs for it actually to format correctly.
After battling it for three days i get it up and running. It bluescreens when it overheats (i have deduced this as the reason, but unfounded) The videocard randomly decides to restart itself sometimes causing my games to lose fullscreen and stop working (XXX game has stopped working dialogue).
My network card works properly but sometimes decides to drop the signal randomly until i manually tell it to fix the problem, and then it works again (this problem has been mostly fixed, and blame is put on the router being aged)
Something is wrong with windows explorer too. It randomly stops working and reboots, killing most apps that are open.
Even firefox, firefox, my beloved firefox that would never turn its back on me, crashes all the time now for no reason (I am lead to beleive that it has soemthing to do with Adobe)
But most of all and the reason i come to the forums for help. What could be worse than random blue screens, a non booting computer, data loss, and unworking reformats? Let me tell you.
I was surfing the web about an hour ago, and my videocard decides to flicker again, and the screen goes black for a second and then comes back.
This time though it doesnt come back normal.
Ever messed with the alternate settings on setting a windows background? I am talking about windows XP for the moment, you can set the background/wallpaper to be "centered" or "tiled" or "stretched". Tile seems to look funny because usually you end up with 3 sets of the image, just like a tile.
back on point, now my laptop's screen looks like a tiled background. I have six start bars, six backgrounds, six instances of windows, six sets of whichever window i pop up, six sidebars, etc. Actually 6 and a half if you count the ones cut off on the bottom. When i move the mouse all six move. Its literally like having 6 tiny monitors displaying the same thing. Only this is a laptop, i wasnt doing any system maintenance at the time, and the display settings regarding the six monitors are very blurry/bad resolution/bad color scheme.
Honestly guys i have no clue. I have shut ti down restarted it, pulled out the battery let it clear the volitle ram. I have no idea. I tried installing the driver which worked but didnt change a thing.
Is it dead? Can a motherboard be broken but still run the computer? Faulty ram? the computer runs fine the display is jsut not working???
I know i mentioned alot of issues but mainly the thing that is killing me is the fact that now the display is severely skewed.
What do i do!
thanks

I have the same problem(when I turn on my laptop I see 6 screens while booting) but my windows vista wont start up and it hangs. Somebody help me...

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