Screen corruption with certain applications

My ArchLinux install has been fine for ages, so I think my ATI card is configured correctly. However, a few days ago I noticed that when I open certain applications (mainly Picasa via Wine and OpenOffice file dialogs), my entire screen becomes corrupted.
It looks like the screen gets divided into 4 or 5 horizontal areas and when I move the mouse pointer or windows, they appear to scroll across these areas in a staggered manner.
I do recall installing Google Chrome (not Chromium) from AUR and I believe it installed a different version of "libjpeg" and "libpng" from source, so maybe this has something to do with it.
Also, when using Nautlius, I get a serious X panic (sometimes kernel panic) saying that "Nautilus is tainted".
I've tried removing these "libjpeg" and "libpng" libraries and have even reinstalled X, Gnome etc. using pacman, however, the problem still occurs.
I can recover by dropping to a virtual console and then restarting X with "/etc/rc.d/gdm restart", but obviously this isn't sustainable.
What do you recommend? If I can't find a solution, I might reinstall the box but will probably go back to Debian.
Thanks in advance!

This appears to be exactly my problem. I will try the suggested fix when I get home from work this evening.
Thanks for the speedy response. Yet another reason to love Arch Linux and its community!
Cheers!

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