What causes little green & purple pixels in iPhoto 6 photos?

I have a Power mac G5 and do extensive photo editing within iPhoto6. I have just over 10,000 photos in my iPhoto library (70% imported from hard photos via a scanner and 30% imported directly from my digital cameras). Recently, I noticed the thumbnail photos within iPhoto will show on about 25% of each photo a "swarm" of green and purple pixles. This does not happen every time I am in iPhoto6 - probably about 1/3 of the time. It is clearly an issue that presents itself exclusively on my photos in iPhoto6. It is not a problem with the monitor. A quick internet search generated info that this might be caused by problems in my computer memory or in the video memory card. I am a novice, so this is beyond me. Any idea what might be causing this, is it serious, and how do I correct it?
Thanks,
HDP

HDP
Does this occur anywhere else except iPhoto? If yo view the files with Preview, for Instance? Is it just on the thumbnails in the iPhoto Window or the photos viewed at full size? Or vice versa?
Regards
TD

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The system was bought for Graphic Design use, and thats what its needed for, But with it getting to the point of me only being able to work under safe mode, I've run out of options!
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Even if i can get it working with something disabled/removed it's fine, But Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign are my work, and without being able to use them i'm pretty much limited!
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Hey,
Sorry for a delay in reply!
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A company has suggested its the graphics chip, and has offered to re-ball it, but i'm not sure on that yet.
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Is this an evil Apple plot to force us to by MacBook Pro's that won't run Virtual PC?
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1."Is this Apple's first virus?"
Negative
2. "Is this the work of a disgruntled Apple employee working in the updates department?"
No, I don't think so. Apple tries these out to try and avoid problems with their updates. Things happen that are not expected. They wouldn't put anything out unless they thought it was ready.
3. "Is this an evil Apple plot to force us to by MacBook Pro's that won't run Virtual PC?"
First off, look at #1 and think about what platform is notorious for virus problems (Mac has had not had any virus out breaks so far). There have been some "malware/macro" software that was meant to mess with Apple Computers. The most recent that was was over exaggerated was nothing special; MacWorld worked pretty hard to get it to effect their machine. As long as you know what you are downloading and where you are getting it from, you should have no problem.
If you want VPC to work on a MacBook Pro; don't look to Apple. You should talk to Microsoft's Mac Department because Apple announced the Universal Binary switch a long time ago (with developer help) so that software companies could make the switch easier. If anyone is to blame; its Microsoft [they are busy working out their problems with Vista; I am guessing it will be awhile before you see VPC for MBP;) ]
"Will running the 10.4.6 hurt or help the situation?"
My opinion would to just reinstall Mac OS X after backing up the hard drive. That would probably fix your problem. Once OS X is installed; update the software.
"Why is there such inconsistency in Apple support and aren't they supposed to log their trouble-shooting steps performed thus far"
Once in a while Apple's personnel may make human errors. The second one you talked to may have seen her work-up and just reiterated what was said. They have resources we don't, but they can't really go beyond them because they can't see the product, and they are just call support. You may have to send it in.
So in 9 years, you have had this one problem. We can't really tell you what is wrong with the computer because we can't see it ourselves; we can only give suggestions/ideas. Tell them her story, explaining her situation (military etc) and then see if they can help. She may want to bring it into her local Apple Store/Reseller. She can make a reservation on the website or at the store. She can get better feedback in person.
Just some of my thoughts,
Jon
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