Screen is on a bad LSD trip - flickers grainy psychedelic colors then black

when i power up my laptop (from off or sleep) the screen drastically flickers grainy psychedelic colors then goes black then flickers back to colors then back to black (etc.etc.) ... each day this process goes on longer than the day before ... am afraid one day it won't come on at all ...
a friend said it was probably the video ram ... can anyone confirm this?
a little more than a year ago i had a new LCD installed because it had started getting faint dark spots ... the first time i booted it up there were occasional blips of strange colors but they only lasted a few seconds so was not able to demonstrate to repairperson ...
help me PLEASE!!!
titanium powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thomas
thankyou for taking the plunge ...
i'm sorry, thought i mentioned the screen was developing dark spots hence my reason for having them look at it ...
However, the main reason i took it in was it had begun to overheat and the VERY LOUD fan would stay on forever and drive me crazy! in 3 years it had never done that and with the warranty about to expire decided to have everything done that i could ...
the apple repair is 4 hours from me or i would have taken it back immediately but in the beginning the problem was so infrequent they might not have been able to detect it anyway.
now that you have a better picture, i bet you tell me i should drop kick this baby into the stratosphere, right?
any idea how much a new logic board will set me back?
(if you're in So Cal double it and you'll know what it'll cost in england ... i moved over from l.a. 2 years ago and the price of things STILL freaks me out!)
thankYOU so much
lori
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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