Strange screen behaviour on new imac

Have had the new imac for a couple of weeks now and all of a sudden the display has started behaving very strangely. Intermittently it is distorting - jagged lines and graphics screwed. Screen capture is linked here:
http://www.malw.co.uk/photos/screencap.jpg
Hope someone can help! Thanks.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that. I've been on the phone for two hours to Applecare who have tried reinstalling OSX (archive mode?), PRAM reset etc. The computer is fine though in safe mode, which leads me to believe the problem might be software based? Their solution now is a complete reinstall so basically I have to spend not only time reinstalling but getting everything back in order - I have an 80gb itunes library and 20gb of photos for starters, plus a load of software I've installed. Anyway, before I have to take that rather drastic route, hopefully someone might come up with something I haven't tried yet.

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