Red Pixels in Black Areas

I just purchased my MBP last week, and so far things have been pretty good. Just one minor issue that I can't seem to figure out; at times when I am viewing black areas, they have a bunch of little red pixels inside them. It's not that the pixels get stuck, I can scroll the images and the red pixels stay in the same area of the picture.
Has anyone else had a similar situation or a solution?
http://h.imagehost.org/0620/Screenshot_2010-08-04_at_12_10_52AM.png

When I look at it, there are little red pixels all over cat's paw. I will have to actually take a picture of my screen with a camera. The red areas sometimes flicker, but it's never a big botch of red, just a lot of nearby pixels. It is not the image, I can see the image clearly on my PC, on here there are red pixels on it.
I will take a photo and post it ASAP.
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