Screen turns blank all it sudden...

I installed SL on a MBP all went normal, but now all it sudden the screen turns black. All I can do is to push the power on/off button till it reboots.
All works fine and then all it sudden I loose the screen again.
I was on skype with a friend while it happened, sound and everything else was still going fine, only the screen turned black (actually very dark gray).
This happens since I installed SL, it does get a little better (had waaay more blank outs shortly after the install) but I normally don't get more then maybe 30 minutes out of the laptop before I have to restart it again.
Any ideas? Any help?
Sure appreciated.
Thanks

I had a similar experience this weekend. First road trip with my MBP converted to SL. I normally get the "you are running on reserve power" notification when I'm running low, but when watching movies on the flight out and back, the computer spontaneously went black - I thought it had shut down out of power. But both times when I later turned it back on I had more than 25% power still remaining. I was thinking it was some kind of problem between the DVD player app and low power notification, but after reading this I am wondering if the screen simply went black as is being described. Unfortunately I did not even try to reboot it after it went dead, assuming it was simply out of power.
Picking up the 'book and putting it back in my briefcase it did not feel overly or unusually warm. On the way out I was running with an external drive connected to the 'book and on the way back I was watching a DVD ... so the only interesting symptom was that in both cases power usage was a little more (or at least different) than normal (I usually watch movies right from the hard drive). The worst thing is that the spontaneous shutdown on the way out seemed to have killed my little external drive - I mean dead. Can't even find it at all in Disk Utility - pretty weird, but that smacks of some kind of power event as well.

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