Strange distorted fields on icons, cursor and DVD video

Hi!
I was playing a DVD when I put my Powerbook to sleep (i.e. I closed it). The next morning the DVD-image was full of green and b/w distortion, and now all the icons on my desktop, the dock, cursor and the upper right corner of the menu bar is distorted too!
Everything else works fine, but this just looks horrible!
Can someone help me please?
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I hope somebody who knows something about video ram will add something to this discussion! My first problem was wierd happenings with IDVD...viewing a dvd (a very pleasurable experience in the past) suddenly showed all kinds of (mostly red and green) vertical lines all across the screen. Soon after, on occasion, I'd suddenly see dual sets of 5-6 vertical lines about one inch in length showing up on desktop icons, menu bars, and the cursor. A reboot will usually clear it, but it comes back...not right away but within a day or so. But nothing helps the idvd play right. Seems to me this started happening soon after I installed OSX 10.4, but I don't know if there's any connection. I ran the Apple Harware Test program and it indicated a problem with the Vram. So-- what does one do abut that? How does one "clear a corrupt memory map in video RAM"?

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