This keeps happening to me. I'll be working on this:

And all of a sudden, I'll get this:

Seems to happen no matter which tool I'm using. If I hit undo, it goes back to normal, but as soon as I touch the model it happens again.
Closing and re-opening mudbox seems to fix the problem, at least for a while. But I'd rather not have to deal with it, obviously. Is this a graphics card problem or something?
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2009 = very buggy.
maybe go snoop over here:
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/forums/viewcategory/95/