Screen goes partially black when using Motion or Compressor

Hi,
I recently upgraded my RAM to 3 GB and am experiencing a problem I never had before. I assume it's related. When I have FCP, Soundtrack, and Motion open sometimes the screen will go mostly black when I play my simple animation in Motion. Parts of the screen are visible with eventually most of the screen coming back. However, sometimes about half an inch of the bottom of the screen stays black. This problem also occurred today when I used Compressor.
The RAM I added is Crucial 2GB 200 PIN SODIMM 256X64 DDR2 PC2-5300.
I also just zapped the PRAM and the problem still exists. Any help would be great!
Thanks much.

I still haven't solved this problem. I'm really wondering if the RAM I bought is faulty or incorrect?
Today, after yet another mostly black screen I opened "Activity Monitor". It shows for Page In / Page out 65609 / 35157. Not really sure what it means, but I assume that's too many page outs!
Ideas???
Thanks.

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