O.K.  My computer is now scaring me.

As you may or may not know, my computer has been having display problems. First it would have a glitched display, then it began freezing occasionally. Soon after, it began freezing consistantly with only the smallest amount of graphic stress.
Now, it has done something that is making me a little scared. The screen actually turned itself off after the display glitched. The computer was still on because the music I was streaming was still playing and continued to play until I reset the computer.
If anyone has any ideas as to what is wrong with my computer, please post up something. My last two questions on this got someone theorizing about my video card, and another posting up a problem he had once (what is a cold boot?).

Yeah, sorry about that. Most of the previous message boards that I attend are deadset against bringing up old topics, so I developed the habit of starting a new one after previous topics had died.
I actually have confirmed that it is not a heat problem, since the behavoirs of the glitches do not follow the same behaviors that a heat problem would have. Display problems start up immediatly (freezes at the loading screen), and the computer get's better as the day moves on. Sometimes I even have days where the computer doesn't glitch at all, even after many hours of use and graphic stress. Other times, I can't even get the computer started.
Using an E-mac OS 10.3.9, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 Processor, 512 MB DDR SDRAM. I can't remember the brand of virus scanner I used, since I deleted it after I had used it to scan my files. I have had this computer for a couple of years
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