What happened to my text?!

This is a problem I've been seeing ever since the first day I turned on my new iMac, but it's never given me enough trouble to bother asking about it until today.
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9937/mactext2gj8.png
Before today, it would just drop the "I's" or "G's" in a paragraph, and a simple restart of the application would fix it. However, as you can see in the image above, it's gotten pretty bad.
I'm tired of putting a temporary stop to the problem by just restarting the application or my system. I want to know what's going on, why it's happening and how to stop it.
This is unbelievably annoying. So far, it's happened in Firefox, Safari, Camino and iChat. I'm at my wits end here, and I don't know what to do.
Help!

HI Video,
I've never seen that before. Considering your iMac is new (less then a year from purchase), take it in for service. That's unacceptable.
Carolyn

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