Lenovo R61e Saga

All I have to say is Wow Lenovo. I just got this laptop off of newegg.com and after the initial set up I was running off of battery power and playing a little game to see how much it taxes the system. The game went fine, but then after I closed out of that I was at my desktop and opened the taskmanager and clicked around a bit. Suddenly, my screen was squashed across the top of the screen and the main screen area was either red, blue, pink, etc. and the only way to get it to go back to desktop was to right click at the top of the screen. I restarted and opened the task manager and it did it yet again, so now I'm getting a little upset. This laptop wasn't even a day old and giving me issues. So, here I sit trying to figure out what I'm going to do...I get the the brilliant idea to download the updates through ThinkPad's ThinkVantage software system updater. After downloading a graphics and battery manager update I reboot thinking it'll be fine, I now have a new problem: the Windows Xp Welcome screen is pixelated and it blue-screens out. I restore it to before I installed those updates and then I find that the system download manager no longer works. At this point I chuck it in its box and don't touch it until I wake up the next morning where I try to figure out a way to update it to no avail. I go to work and then as soon as I get home I call Lenovo and get a great tech support guy based in Atlanta, GA. He told me to download the updates directly from IBM, not Lenovo, and now I don't get the crazy screen and the system update manager works!! This was quite the saga with a new laptop and I am still deciding if I want to send it back for a replacement or just keep it, if it last a week with me trying to make it go graphically crazy and it doesn't then I'll keep it and see where it takes me. This is a Buyer Beware in terms of R61e Lenovo laptops.