Vaio TX - Video Problem - Flashing White Dots

I'm glad to have found this forum, and I hope someone can help me with a strange problem with my Vaio TXN19P.

When I run certain applications that make use of the video adapter, I get white dots flashing around the screen when there is motion. It looks like it's snowing. It's a very annoying problem. So far I have noticed this with Google Earth and PCTV To Go Player. I also see it when I use the screen zoom feature to enlarge a part of the screen with the Intel graphics tray icon. In that case, the snow appears only in the zoom window. In Google Earth, it only happens when I move the map or the mouse, causing motion. With PCTV To Go Player, since it's a video player with constant motion, the white dots flash around all the time. I don't get it when playing movies of any other kind with any other video player, or any other type of video. Perhaps it's some kind of an incompatibility between the hardware and DirectX/OpenGL? I'm running the latest video drivers and all patches/updates. The video chipset in this Vaio is Intel 945GM. Running XP Pro with 2GB RAM. I've tried messing with all the video settings, and display options in Google Earth.

Any ideas? Anyone else have this problem with a Vaio and Google Earth? Any diagnostic procedures or tests I can try to narrow the cause?

I can take a video of the problem happening if anyone wants to see it.

 

Would the snowing look like this by any chance:
http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/ll266/halfhalo/?action=view&current=artifact1.jpg

If so a different driver might help to solve the problem
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel945gm/

Hope this helps

 

Yes, It looks exactly like that! Unfortunately, I've already updated to the latest driver, and it didn't fix the problem for me. Am I the only one? Does anyone else see snow with the downloadable (stand alone) version of Google Earth?