Strange screen "glitch," during start-up.

I am a little concerned about my brand new MBP, though everything else seems to be working fine.
When I start-up and the grey apple screen comes up, and the gear icon finishes spinning, as the screen switches to blue, there is a strange glitch. The screen flashes briefly, and the apple appears for a millisecond, offset an inch or so to the right, and then the start-up finishes normally.
There is also a similar "glitch,' when starting up in Vista on the MBP's bootcamp partition.
Windows starts up, but as the final screen loads after logging in, the screen flashes off/on very briefly before Vista finishes loading it's welcome folder, window.
Again, everything else seems to be working fine. Hardware tests show all is normal, no permissions errors, no disk utility repairs needed, and no problem files found with Diskwarrior.
I have also previously run an archive and install of Leopard, to deal with another earlier issue. Still the glitch...
Anyone else experience this, or have any answers.

i just experienced something similar. BRAND NEW MBP with tons of problems running leopard. my computer ran out of power completely last night because i forgot my power adaptor, so when i plugged it in this morning, and opened the case, i saw a totally gray screen that lasted for about 15 seconds, when it flashed into my desktop with all the applications i had opened when it lost power, HOWEVER, it was also grayed out with a strange meter (much like the ones that pop up for brightness or volume) filling slowing in white. After about 15 seconds of that, the screen un-grayed and looked normal EXCEPT for the top toolbar with the time, power, etc had a ton of tiny black glitchy lines through it and i couldn't see any of the information. the rainbow pinwheel was turning and turning forever and ever when that stopped and i was able to click on the desktop. at that time the glitchness disappeared and everything went back to "normal". Except for the fact that my keyboard stopped working! and i had to reboot. the black glitchy lines worry me.

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