Trouble in video land

On Wednesday, ATI released this months update to their Catalyst suite and video driver so I decided to install them when I got home from work last night on my XFX 4870 card.  When 10.5 was released last month I noticed that the installation took a long time and when it finally finished the log indicated that the driver installation had failed.  I tried a few more times with the same result.  My assumption was that this was a software problem, and since everything was working I decided to wait for 10.6 and try again.  When it didn't install either, I tried several steps to get around whatever the problem was.  First, I tried to install just the driver without the Catalyst suite.  No go.  Next I uninstalled the old driver and tried to install the new one.  Big mistake.  The new driver would not install, and when I tried to reinstall an older version that had worked in the past it also would not install.  This tells me that there is a problem with the card itself.  This is the second XFX 4870 card I've had, the first one lasted about a month before it had to be sent back to XFX for replacement.  They were pretty quick, but I wasn't to happy about having to pay to ship back their defective card.  I ended up pulling my old Geforce 8800GT off the shelf and was able to get back up and running in no time.  After reading an article on Tom's Hardware, I decided to purchase an ATI 5830.  I just ordered an HIS iCooler V H583FN1GD HD 5830 video card from Newegg.com due to it's high rating and the free Modern Warfare 2 doesn't hurt too much either.  I'll write about the card once it arrives.