Weird screen issues in full screen mode

This problem here could as well be posted under the MacPro section, but I'll give it a try here first:
I have a brand new MacPro 6-core with the HD 5870 graphics card option. I use a dual screen setup with a Cinema HD 23" (Aluminium body) hooked up using the Mini Display Port Adpater and a brand new NEC PA241W hooked up using the big DVI connector.
The Cinema Display is secondary, while the NEC is primary.
Everything runs fine until I go to full screen mode in Aperture (3.1). As soon as I use one of the floating windows of Aperture (like when pressing "H" or when using the Crop Tool) the image, which is displayed full screen on the NEC while having the browser on the ACD, starts to behave very awkward. When using the crop tool for example, it will get reduced to about 80% of the full screen size. When I move the mouse somewhere on the ACD it gets back to full screen. This then goes back and forth every time I move my mousepointer somewhere.
Similarily, when I start to edit a few sliders with the Adjustments panel, the NEC image sometimes gets darker for a split second and then back up to normal brightness. Same here: when I move the mouse pointer on the ACD, it usually triggers this in any kind of way.
As you can imagine, there is no way of working fluently and it gets on my nerves pretty fast, making full screen view unusable. In the normal window view, there is no such behavior at all.
I have the feeling, that there seems to be something wrong with either the HD 5870, it's drivers, something in Aperture itself (no problems in any other Application so far) or any combination of all of the above together.
Before this setup I used a iMac with the ACD attached and never had any issues.
Any ideas?

- it's just one card, the optional HD 5870
- I switched the primary/secondary between the NEC and the ACD and also switched the way they connect to the GC, still the same. So it occurs on the ACD as well and it does not matter if either display is connected using the DVI or the Mini Display Port (therefore I think it's not a display issue)
- I always update everything right away, so my systems are always running the latest of everything, OS X, Aperture...
- I used the profile which was default for the NEC and a calibrated one for the ACD. But since it occurs on both monitors, I don't think this is an issue. It is highly unlikely that there are two broken profiles at the same time causing the exact same bug
Meanwhile I got an answer from somebody in another Mac forum and he could reproduce this behavior on his MacPro, which is from 2008 and has the 5770 card. So it narrows down even further and seems to affect older MP's and the 5770 card as well. I'm indeed glad that somebody else experiences the same, because I was worried that my brand new MP was broken.
Here are the exact steps how to reproduce it (you need a MP + Aperture + 2 Displays):
1. go to full screen with "F"
2. enable the HUD using "H"
3. lock the HUD to the viewer using the small button in the upper right corner of the HUD
4. activate any of the quick brushes, like dodge or burn
5. the picture, which should be full screen on the primary display, will now reduce in size to about 70% and will be sitting on the right hand side of the screen
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