Pink Pink Pink Display!

My display shows everything in shades of pink with golden highlights. It started out flashing either pink or cyan for just a few seconds. But now it has been pink for about 1 1/2 days.
I took it to the Apple store on Sunday. It flashed pink, but the genius wasn't looking so he was unable to diagnose the problem. He said it was either the display or the motherboard.
Any ideas on which might be causing the problem? If it's the display, is that something I could install myself? I'm out of warranty:( and not a born computer tech though I have done both the memory and the hard drive.

"But now it has been pink for about 1 1/2 days."
"I took it to the Apple store on Sunday. It flashed pink, *but the genius wasn't looking* so he was unable to diagnose the problem."
HUH? If the genius is suppose to be diagnosing your computer exactly where was he looking?
When the genius did look, he did not see that the +"display shows everything in shades of pink with golden highlights since he allegedly did not see the flash?"+
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