Hi Rich, typically stuff like that is an indication of video driver problems. If you continue to see this problem you may want to try updating your video driver to the latest version and see if that helps any. Also another thing you can try is to set an option to disable multi-threading in the display engine, sometimes that causes problems with some drivers. There's a description on how to set the option for that here: http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7385.3
Actually - looks like MoI was going through integrated graphics - changed to secondary NVidia and seems to be working! Sorry for the stream of consciousness!
Hi Rich, that definitely sounds like video driver related problems - maybe when you updated your drivers you only updated the one for one of the 2 video cards in your machine?
It sounds like you've got it worked out now though.