I can confirm your findings.
Radeon X1950 Pro, 1280x1024.
I still get the green borders with 'adaptive AA' turned on, and I still get the 'sun disk' - no bloom around it.
On the upside, at least I can RUN with adaptive AA at native res, now. For some reason with the Cat 7.5s, running at 1280x1024 with adaptive AA would disable all AA entirely. Running at 1280x960, and all worked fine.
With the 7.6s, I can now run at 1280x1024 with 4xAA and 'adaptive AA' enabled, so...that's something. I suppose. If those green borders would go away...