Weird video corruption when connecting to 27" Display Port Cinema Display

I'm not sure whether this is a Mountain Lion issue, a hardware issue with the MacBook Pro retina, or a 27" LED cinema display issue (non-Thunderbolt). Last night, when I had brought my MBP-r home from work and connected it to my Cinema Display, the MBP didn't appear to wake up when I hit a key on the external keyboard (Apple's wired keyboard). I opened the lid of the MBP, and I saw this:
Disconnecting the externa display did not help, nor did putting the MBP to sleep and waking it up again. Eventually, I had to hold the power key down to shut it down. There are no directory or permission errors on the SSD. I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3.
This isn't the first time I've seen this problem, but it's the first time that required a forced restart.

Thanks for your reply. I will explore your suggestions. I have a MacBook not a MacBook Pro. Does that affect your advice?
A 2007 MacBook also has mini-dvi so nothing is changed.
I have asked about the problem at the Apple store with a cinema display specialist.
Apple stores have "cinema display specialists"?
They don't know what the problem is and suggest I bring the MacBook in to be checked. They didn't identify any compatibility problem.
Which is why I question the words "cinema display specialists"!
We know that the display works fine because we are able to operate it with a MacBook Pro (2011). But any further suggestions welcome.
Those machines have mini-diplayport (or is it thunderbolt by 2011? -- doesn't matter). So no adapters necessary and you know your display works. But the video out ports are "apples and oranges" here (mini-displayport vs. mini-dvi). The object your "game" is how to connect (female) mini-dvi to to a (male) mini-displayport display (don't even think about the thunderbolt display).
I've given you all the ideas I could think of, except when it comes to finding adapters or converters of various "flavors", it's google, google, google.

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