Screen displaying lighter greys as white

I have an issue that occurs every time I start my MBP: when it starts up, the lighter shades of grey are displayed as white. When I plug the MBP into a monitor and the screen flashes blue, the colors are corrected. Does anyone know what the issue could be?

My 2 + yr old MBP has display issues as well. When I goto the Apple web site and 'configure' a MB AIR, the accessory items show as white on white. The same page ona new MBP shows as beige/grey on white. On my MBP I can't even see the images.... Look here... http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB940LL/A?mco=MTkzOTI1NQ The mini-display port graphic barely shows up at all. When I took it into my local Apple dealer he "Configured" the graphics for me but then weird writing appeared on the browser top and on the Apple 'task bar' at the bottom weird graphics showed up.
This machine has beem this way since day 1. I hope Apple will fix it.

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