External Monitor Has A Blue Tint

I've had my iMac for about 4 years and I just hooked up an external monitor.
I bought the monitor a good while ago and it has been basically sitting in a closet for a few years.
Just bought a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter and when I hook the monitor up, there's a blue tint which I am assuming because the red is not coming through.
When I adjust the color settings, there is no difference in color from when the red is set at 0 and when it is set at 100.
At first I thought it might be the monitor because it's old and has been passed around to a few people but then I noticed the menu for the monitor is showing red hues just fine.
To test this out, I hooked my netbook up to the monitor and the picture looks just fine.
Any ideas?

Do you get this after switching users? This is something that intermittently happens to me on my MacBook after switching users. Restarting is the only thing I have found which fixes that issue however, so I don't know if it's related.
I would imagine it to be a software issue rather than hardware. I would try repairing permissions, resetting PRAM and SMC. If that fails then an Archive & Install would be my next move.

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