My Image Display Saga, OR The Value Of Detective Work And Perseverance

When I upgraded to Firefox 12, certain background images wouldn't display properly, while others wouldn't display at all. But it only happened on one of my computers. All the others were fine. The one where things weren't working was my desktop computer with the nice monitor, so it was rather important that things work. The symptoms were that (a) for some background images, rather than display the image, it would display the first line of the image, and repeat it over and over, in one long bleeding stripe (b) if one did "view image", the image itself did display correctly (c) for some semi-transparent images, they didn't display at all.
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More Video Woes

So... here I've been using the NVIDIA video driver because there were problems with the Nouveau driver... and now I'm finding problems - different ones, of course - with the NVIDIA driver!
1) some fonts not displaying properly
2) wierd after-images
3) Looking at crochet tutorials on youtube... and everyone's hands are BLUE!

I'm not quite sure which set of problems is worse. But I've gone back to the nouveau driver for now. (sigh)
I hope this doesn't mean that my graphics card is breaking down. 8-(