Wacked animated icon colors on MBP and external monitors

Is anyone else having the problem that animated icons (and even the scrolling script on the Apple home page) are displayed as multicolored pixels. I'd upload an image of this, but we can't here.

Yes, I'm having this problem. Apple's Aperture page looks bad, with some weird texturing on the gray gradients as well. iCal icons are another place where they show up in a grainy kaliediscope of colors on both my MacBook screen and the attached 30" screen.
Apple Care has told me to have both units tested, but my money is on this being a graphics hardware problem in the MacBook.

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