I'm not normally a fan of "me too" messages, but this thread's low reply count (due to the original thread being locked by the moderators) would seem to imply that the vertical stripes problem is less of an issue than it seems, and I'd like to fix that.
So... it's still happening to me too, more than 4+ months after it was officially reported (with no word from Apple). If you're having the problem, I encourage you to post here too so that this thread stays in a place where it gets noticed.
I will also take advantage of my new "top of the thread" position to recap some of the issues and solutions:
This picture describes the problem that we are all discussing:
http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mg2729smallnx2.jpg
If you have a different display problem, please do not post about it here (but feel free to start another thread in the forum!).
When this problem occurs, you can press Ctrl-Shift-Eject and then move the mouse (or whatever) to restore your screen. This will generally fix the problem with the strips until the next time it occurs.
Also, here are gamlidek's instructions (from the previous thread) for how to reproduce the problem with some level of reliability:
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One more try:
1) Unplug MBP. *
2) Set brightness to max, then dim it by 6 boxes.
3) Run photo booth and start taking pictures.
Also, more info on the tests I did.
Two of the 4MBPs took over 15 pictures to reproduce. 1 reproduced in 5 pics, the last one reproduced in 2 pictures. So, it may take more than 5 pictures to reproduce.
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Some posters have also indicated that the problem is correlated with having the display backlight set to <6 boxes from max when putting the display to sleep. Please search the old thread for details (<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1423301&tstart =0).