Washed out and dissapearing display profile

Hi,
I hope someone might have some insight with my PB problem.
Thank you in advance for reading my long winded 1st post.
I wonder if any one else is having a similar problem.
I thought that this was the best place to turn for advice.
I have a one month old 15"PB, with 1.5 gigs of ram, and a 100 gig 7200 rpm hitachi HD, which has been running great until last Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday I ran for the "first" time the software updater to 10.4.3. I don't think this is the reason for the following problem because of the reinstalls of the original OS, but you never know.
Anyway the display would all of a sudden look washed out. The difference is somewhat subtle but wrong. (Sometimes after staring at it for so long in the beginning I wasn't sure what was noraml or not anymore). I tried things like changing brightness, went to Universal Access and played with the contrast but it didn't look "normal" to me. I then checked the display profile of which the active profile was "LCD Display" which I now beilive to be the correct one. I decided to calibrate, which created a new profile. It didn't seem to be diiferent so I deleted the "new profile" which by chance or something also deleted the default "LCD Profile" now definitely washed out . The default setting was now "Generic RGB Proflie". Without the "LCD Display" profile, it won't/wouldn't recalibrtae again.
( You can see the difference by changing this setting between the LCD Dispaly and the Generic RGB profile.)
After reading for hours to try and find out how recreate the "LCD display" profile but with no luck I thought it best to backup everything and do a clean/erase and install.
This worked and it was back again:)
But after a while (a 1/2 hour or a few) it would vanish again and default to
the "Generic RGB Proflie".
Rebooting would fix it.( I can't remember if it fixed it everytime or not).
I phoned Apple Care 3 times. The first two times to a level one tech which didn't provide any insight. The third time to a second level who thought it must be hardware related. He guessed that it might be losing comunication with the display?
He said that I could send it in for repair to see if they can figure it out or try taking it back to the Authorized Apple store from where it was purchased, which I thought might be quicker because I live in BC, Canada.
I took it in on Thursday only to have them get back to me today Monday to say that they can not recreate the problem. The repair tech asked for more information from me about the problem in hopes of recreating it. The tech after today would be away until Friday.
I phoned the sales lady of which I have had (before this) and know quite well, and voiced my displeasure. She is looking in to it but if they can't recreate it in the next however long I have to take it back until it happens again to start all over and be no further ahead.
I am so frustrated.
Thank you for reading,
Martin
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hey, I had the same problem. Although I (kind of) isolated it. I found out that any time I am playing Civ III and unplug my power adaptor, the display goes to minimum power mode (dim). If one shines a light on it, then you can find the cursor and do stuff, but it is not an acceptable solution. The problem has happened afterwards, but it wasn't reproducable. Although I noticed that I had lots of applications open and was usually browsing in Safari when it happened. I've had other problems like a sticky trackpad or a messed up key bindings. (Delete not only took away a character, but it turned down my display brightness.
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