Google Earth Community: O boy ... annoying flashing graphics! ???

Hi Lrae

I hope I can answer your questions! I'm not the computer expert here ... but I'll try; the information I'm given under "My Computer" says
the video controller is Radeon 7000 v 6.14.10.6462.
I don't do the updates for versions or drivers, but my husband is usually fanatical about updates, so I think most everything is probably up to date.
We're using WinXP-Pro sp2
I don't know where to look for video memory - I didn't see anything listed in the properties box for that component. -?- I think he may have said 128, but I'm not sure he was talking about video when he said that.
I'm told that both OpenGL and DirectX 9 are on the system - does that seem likely?
This local computer is 40 GB with 69% free space and 1GB RAM ... but the server is bigger;
I was definitely on this computer and not the server, because the server doesn't have a keyboard, and I have to disconnect this one and take it in there where there's no desktop (and that means trying to balance it on the fish tank which is a challenge and an annoyance, so that doesn't happen much)
And yes, it was the same Google Earth (free) the last time I was on -- so far as I know; I didn't DL a new one or anything, if that's what you mean. I just started it again from the icon, and got these wild flashing geometrics ... they look like they're attached to points on the map. If I turn off the roads it stops. But then, of course, you get no roads.
Thanks for all your links to information. I'm late for work and have to run for now, but I'll look when I get home, and maybe find an answer to what I did to it! (I really suspect it's more likely something I did than something defective on the machine, but you never know!)
Any further suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks

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