Odd corruption on wake from sleep

Hi,
Here's a link to a photo of the corruption in question.
It seems to occur after periods of prolonged sleep - say, overnight. The form of the corruption is always the same. Also, I should note that the appearance of the desktop in the photo isn't the way the screen first appears. No, instead it's entirely black - no menu bar, no desktop picture - apart from the two icons on the top-right. Click and dragging the mouse cursor over the desktop (as though to select) will bring up the effect pictured under the selected region. Similarly, clicking on the location where a menu should be will produce that menu, uncorrupted, and it will remain. However, the rest of the Menu bar can only be re-instituted following a Relaunch of the Finder. Similarly, going to System Preferences… and changing the desktop picture will produce the desired effect. However, even after performing both these things (the Relaunch and the picture change) corruption will still remain, unmovable and unmodifiable, in the region below the Menu bar - almost as though it were the Quartz Extreme shadow effect that were corrupted - and recently I did notice that the Quartz Extreme shadowing was (though infrequently) flakey after sleep, in that it would not appear at all, and only by "selecting" the region where it should be (eg. under the menu bar) caused it to re-appear. In the end, I log out and back in to get everything back to normal.
Writing this, I'm wondering if my nVidia GeForce4 MX AGP video card (original Apple-supplied version) may be the culprit. However, a search on Apple's Downloads only reveals drivers for those owning my card and trying to use an Apple Cinema HD display. nVidia doesn't even recognize Mac in it's driver-selection process (unless I'm supposed to use the FreeBSD installer???)
Any ideas?
SiR G.
12" iBook G4 800MHz w/ 640MB RAM (128MB built-in), 80GB HDD & Airport Extreme; Mac OS X (10.4.9) Power Mac G4 MDD dual-867MHz, 1.25GB RAM, Sonnet Tempo SATA card; iPod Nano 8GB

I'm curious to know the answer to this too, as I hear a faint bell ring (like a telephone) when my power mac G5 wakes up. My OS X is Leopard. Didn't hear this when I was using OS X Tiger.

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