Odd lines and dots everywhere...

Ok I've been dealing with this issue for a bit too long and am finally fed up with it.
Every once and a while these lines and dots will show up all over everything, it's particularly evident on drop shadows that are around the windows. Now let me give you an example as to when it happens. Everything is cool (and lines/dots free) so I put the computer to sleep for the night, wake it up the next morning and the lines/dots appear. So now I have these lines/dots everywhere. So I leave for an hour, come back and the screensaver is running, I move the mouse to break the screensaver's cycle and low and behold they've all disappeared. So I am completely dumbfounded, they come and go whenever they please.
And it's not like it all of a sudden has started doing it, I inherited this computer from my brother and he had the problem as well, and just like my problem, it would come and go whenever for him.
As for the system:
Dual 2 GHz G5
3.5GB ram
10.5.6
ATI Radeon X800 XT
And a picture to show you what it's doing...
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/frootloops16/strangeproblem.png
Any and all help would be appreciated as this kinda gets in the way of my work.
Thanks in advance,
Jon

+"Does the problem occur in OS X Tiger?"+
It did this with Tiger too.
+"Have you tried reseating the graphics card?"+
Many times.
+"What monitor do you use?"+
20" Cinema HD display
+"Is the cable of good quality and in good condition?"+
Yep.
Now back onto the dusting suggestion. Typical cleaning procedure is some canned air and a small mini vac. However just to make sure I took the card out just a few minutes ago to give it a more thorough cleaning. Got all of the dust off it, took a look in the squirrel cage/fan heatsink assembly and pulled out a huge wad of built up dust that was wedged in there... I am completely embarrassed because this is stuff I tell people to do all the time. Can we say cleaning 101, check your video card if you are having problems with it?!
After I pulled that sucker out, I put the card back in, fired it up and no dots/lines... yet. HOPEFULLY this has solved the issue.
I'm wondering how long it's been in there. God I feel so stupid!
Thanks for the help guys (and gals).
Back to work,
Jon

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