Screen dims to dark on its own during use. Software/hardware problem?

Since I upgraded to 10.4.10 and had a new hard drive (WDC WD1200BEVE-11UYT0) and a new memory chip installed I have been having a problem with the screen suddenly dimming, most times dimming to the lowest setting. When this happens the 'sun' screen brightness icon appears and you can see the level brightness indicator bars drop. This happens w/o any regular time interval, sometimes it seems vibration related and sometimes not. After it occurs, I can sometimes bring the brightness level back up and it will hold, other times it falls back down again and repeated attempts to bring it up will not work; if you give it some time to rest, 30 sec. to 2 mins, then it will work. I have no idea what is going on. Is there a setting I need to adjust, is it a glitch and it needs a software patch, is something/a connection loose in the computer? Any suggestions are appreciated! Thanks

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