WoW Freezing with new intel iMac

Posted this in the wrong forum so re-posting here.
I play World of Warcraft and I recently upgraded to a new 17" iMac. Here are the specs -
17" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz
2GB RAM (Apple installed)
ATI Radeon X1600 128 VRAM
Mac OS 10.4.9
Now I used to have a 17" intel mac 1.8GHz model and it NEVER had any problems playing WoW but this new machine will constanly freeze solid at random times while I'm playing. I cannot switch to another window, bring up the dock, or anything else. I have to hold in the power button to shut it down.
I ran Apple Hardware Test extended and it found no problems. The RAM is stock Apple ram. I dont have any 3rd party peripherals connected. I reinstalled WoW and even archive installed to 10.4.8. Disk utility reports no problems.
So after trying all of this I broke down and purchased WinXP and installed it via bootcamp and I've been able to play WoW with ZERO lockups while booted to WinXP. There was one single time where the game kicked me back to the desktop and I got the following error message "VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator or it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands". WoW was still active and on my taskbar and I was able to click it and continue playing without any problems.
I've been back and forth with WoW tech support and they claim that its probably an issue with the video card. The only time I have problems is when I'm playing WoW. Everything else works fine.
Is there anyone out there that can help me narrow down the issue? I installed the developer tools and I'm willing to try Shark and Spin Control to help diagnose this problem I just need a little guidance.
The lockups are random and as far as I can tell when it happens the sound continues on as normal. All of my graphics freeze but my mouse cursor still works. If I'm playing in windowed mode the cursor still works but I am unable to click WoW or any other windows or the dock. Force quit menu does not come up.
Help!

While I don't have an answer for your specific problem, I can say I have the same video card and WoW runs very well here without any problems (less RAM, too). I'm finding it hard to believe it's the video card when you say your XP install runs without glitches.
I'm curious if you've tried playing other 3D games on OS X without experiencing similar problems. Warcraft 3, Unreal Tournament 2004, anything.

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