Scrambled display video on MBP with NVIDIA GT 300 card

Hi; I'm posting this on the MBP discussion group (mistakenly posted it on the MacBook group; thanks to frederic1943 for pointing this out) was wondering if anyone was having this same problem. I have a 15-inch MBP with i7 processor (I believe it is mid-2010), running Mac OS X 10.6.7, that has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics card in addition to the Intel graphics card. I have upgraded the physical RAM to the maximum 8GB.
I have recently been experiencing a problem in using Firefox 4.0.1 in which one or both of 2 things happens: 1) when I open a new window or tab in Firefox, the window is totally black; and/or 2) the display becomes scrambled and I can no longer make out the outlines of windows in Firefox. Sometimes a black page will open normally if I refresh the screen with cmd-R (sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries), and sometimes the scrambled screen will return to normal appearance if I click on the Menu bar and slide the cursor left and right; sometimes I can then grab a window handle and "wipe" the screen clear of the scrambled video so it is readable again.
I will admit that I have had quite a few windows open in Firefox when this has happened, so I suspect I may be stressing the video RAM. However, I wanted to see there are other explanations for this problem.
I have read about similar-sounding problems with earlier MBPs using the 8600 graphics card, but not with the one I have. I also saw some posts about similar-sounding problems with Safari that did not occur with Firefox; however, I'm having the problem in Firefox. I haven't tried Safari to see if I would have the same problem. I've run TechTool which did not find any problems, and also ran the Cron scripts (all 3) using Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, but am still having the problem. I have over 800MB of system RAM free (although I realize it may be the video RAM that is limiting here). I
Any ideas or similar experiences? Any feedback (other than closing some windows, which I have been doing, and am still having the problem) would be most helpful.
Thanks, - Klingon725

having too many tabs open isnt the issue here, i would love to answer you, but i work for AMD, so i rarely get in touch with nvidia gpus but u should try booting in safe mdoe first, and running the apple hardware test will be a good idea

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