Yellow Screen problem

My 15" Macbook Pro 5.3, bought in July 2010, has developed a weird problem. The screen goes yellow. No other functionality affected. The problem can be somewhat masked by selecting "thousands" rather than "millions" of colours in the detect displays menus. Sometimes the problem goes away, apparently of its own accord. Sometime a slight movement of the screen angle makes it go away. Sometimes it's there for a few minutes then goes; recently it's been like this for a couple of days. I will have to live with it at the moment as I am a long way from a service agent and need my laptop.
I can't see how to upload a picture to this board, but if anyone can advise me on how to do that I will.
My guess is that this is a hardware failure related to the screen signal supply cable in the hinge. But one Mac expert said he'd seen the same thing as a precursor to, and symptom of, board failure. It's also been suggested, by a moderator on the Mac Forum board, that it might be a graphics card problem, though I wonder how that can be so intermittent - I would expect the GC to either work or not work, not to work for a bit, then not work, then work for a bit longer
I'd be very interested if anyone has come across this problem, and has any thoughts on it.
Best wishes
R

Your machine is just under the 1 year deadline for getting AppleCare. If you haven't gotten it yet, and have treated your machine well, I strongly recommend getting it, incase this yellowing problem turns out to be a hardware or software issue Apple can repair. You can buy it anyplace as long as the original shrinkwrap is on it, and it is for MacBook Pro. It extends both Apple hardware and software support for an additional two years.

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