Second Life messing up my MacBook Pro

Hi,
I am not sure if I am dealing with a hardware or software issue here but I love Second Life and really want to be able to run it on my MacBook Pro.
I initially had no problems at all but in the last month, I have had numerous major crashes where the entire computer locks up. I have the Radeon X1600 Video card and 1.5. Gigs of RAM but despite this, I still seem to have to have all the video preferences turned down to almost nothing to run it.
And even then, I just keep crashing. Sometimes, while running SL on my external 19" monitor, the MacBook Pro screen will suddenly turn into a flashing strobe light or the background Mac image will become all jagged. Just last night, the external monitor on which I have the actual desktop (i.e. Dock, icons etc) looked like it was melting (all the icons were blurry and all the text on the screen was blurred. A restart reset it and it seemed okay until 10 minutes into SL again when both screens suddenly went black and I couldn't get them to come back on again so another hard restart.
I have read other people being able to run SL fine on the same model as mine.
I have tried clearing the cache, I have it set to just 200 in SL preferences.
I am running the latest SL version too.
Other weird things...while running SL in a window on my Mac desktop (on external monitor) :
1) the MacBook Pro screen is suddenly completely covered in equal green and black vertical lines or just white and black vertical lines.
2) Strobe light effect - strong, regular bright flashing on the MacBook Pro screen
3) Normally smooth background lines on MacBook Pro screen are jagged and pulsating like crazy.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I love SL and just pray that I can run it again on my MacBook Pro !!
Jessica

Jessica,
I have the same problem with Second Life completely locking up my whole computer and forcing me to do a hard restart. I am not a tech guy, but I have been doing my best to get answers. There is a small thread here (http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1978?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system .issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_32598) which discusses the issue. According to these posts, it has something to do with a driver for the new graphics cards being defective in some way.
What I find so frustrating is finding answers from people who actually have authority to speak (an official Apple rep or Linden Lab rep or both) saying "We are aware and will have an update soon." If such an acknowledgment is out there, please please post it here!
Is Apple just rushing new models out so fast they aren't developing them properly? I don't know how all this works, but if MacBook Pro's crash when people play games like World of Warcraft and Second Life, I think Apple has a problem.
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