X3100 Leopard & Snow Leopard Graphical Artifacts

Hi all,
I have a bizarre problem, I get to many graphical artifact appearing on my screen when using almost any mac application. A good example would be when installing mac software the blue progress bar may appear to be duplicated on screen. Refreshing the screen generally resolves the issue but is comes back very soon afterwards.
At first I though it may be a hardware problem so ran a hardware test all is ok.
I beleive the issue to be software related since when booted in to windows vista no graphical glitches occur.
Does anyone know if there are any official acknowledgements of mac and x3100 problems?
To resolve i have tried the following to no avail:
reinstalled mac os
gone back to leopard
replaced the ram with the original factory ram
reset the mac
bought a laptop stand with cooling fan( i noticed flash vids heat the mac up quite a lot, the problem generally occurs with more CPU intensive processes)
Any idea's

Hi,
Sadly I have resolved the problem, I even went back on to Leopard 10.5.4 ( the disc that came with the Mac). I still had the same problem. After this experience I have taken my mac back to the retailer, in the UK john Lewis offer a 2 year guarantee!!!!!! Hopefully they will resolve the problem. If not I think I'll be going to get a windows 7 laptop. My first proper Windows computer in 15 years. The spec on something around £500=£600 is almost that of a decent 15"macbook pro.
Windows 7 seem like an ok OS, everything seem reasonably quick on a borrowed dell inspiron at least.

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8800GTs are harder to find, still on ebay at times.
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