swx2009 vista 64bit quadro video issues

greetings all! good ol' bob z. has been on a whirlwind tour of employed and unemployed. times have been both good and bad.

bob z. comes to the group with hat in hand and in need of some expert advice. see link below for examples of the issue:

bob z. will try to describe what is happening. quite often the screen doesn't fully refresh. a portion will behave normally (the small portion shown in the pictures), while the rest is just a static picture. the portion of the screen/video that behaves properly is always where a dialog box or another program window was just active. bob z. hopes this is not too confusing. this problem is EXTREMELY random and usually only appears when bob z. is zoomed in and trying to mate one detail to another and the only way to get the screen to fully refresh is to do any one of many things (click on empty space, minimize swx and maximize, switch to another program and switch back, etc) and these don't always work right away. the glitch will stay for anywhere between half a second to minutes if you let it.

system specs: dell precision T3400 intel core 2 duo E8500 3.16GHz

8.00 GB of ram. yeah, you read that right. 8 GIGA Bytes. bill gates made it so let it be written, so let it be done. :~)>

vista sp1 64-bit quadro FX3700 microsoft trackball explorer spaceball etc

bob z. has tried several video drivers. the dell supplied, the swx certified, a couple different nvidia drivers -direct from nvidia.com (using the latest currently). every driver resulted in the very same performance and issues. bob z. changed the performance settings of windows from full-bore make-it-pretty to please-help-me-i-love- windows-2000. bob z. changed the nvidia display adapter settings from wildly one direction to fully the other and most places in between. the specific swx settings in the driver control panel still had zero net effect on this little 'glitch'.

this computer is fast. bob z. really likes it. everything is instantly responsive except for when using a program and then switching back to swx. swx seems to be just a tad slow at becoming responsive. this is only when it is first clicked - it is blazing fast after the first click (this is not starting it from scratch - this when it is already open and you have to check your email or surf slashdot for a minute and then come back to your design).

anybody have any ideas? this is getting to a be a little tiresome for good ol' bob z. he, of course, did many google searches and found only one instance of someone with the same behavior and they were told to do everything that bob z. has already done PLUS re-seat the video card. bob z. isn't sure if he is ready to move up to physical surgery on this here box. it is so new and so fresh and so clean and so awesome and it smells so good. it reminds good ol' bob z. of a brand- new car. you don't pull the valve covers off of a brand-new car engine just to look at the rockers, do you?

bob z. :~)>

p.s. vista is flakey. sure it works, but boy, is it flakey...